"Incapsula" news, interviews, and features

News about Incapsula

• Anonymous-tied DDoS botnet shows insecure routers are legion

  Researchers found a botnet of over 40,000 routers that are being used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks

• Startup backs services with elasticity of AWS, Azure clouds to outlast DDoS attacks

• XSS flaw in popular video-sharing site enabled DDoS attack through visitors' browsers

  Attackers exploited the vulnerability to hijack 22,000 browsers and launch a large-scale DDoS attack, researchers from Incapsula said

• Large DDoS attack brings WordPress pingback abuse back into spotlight

  Attackers exploited the pingback feature in WordPress to use 160,000 WordPress sites as DDoS proxies, researchers from Sucuri said

• Application-layer DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated

  Attackers are using real browsers on infected computers to attack Web applications and bypass DDoS protection

• Botnets for hire likely used in attacks against US banks, security firm says

  The attacks are very sophisticated, security researchers say

Features about Incapsula

• Bad bots on the rise: A look at mobile, social, porn, and spam bots.

  The world of malicious mobile, social, porn, or spam robots that live on the Internet and unsuspecting users' devices