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DDoS
Surge in memcached-based reflected DDoS attacks is due to misconfigured servers

Massive memcached-based reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor have been ongoing for the last few days, by taking advantage of memcached servers …

Android explode
Tech firms band together to take down Android DDoS botnet

An ad-hoc alliance of tech firms has managed to seriously cripple an Android-based botnet that was being actively used to DDoS multiple content providers. The botnet, dubbed …

DDoS
Here we go again: DDoS attacks on the rise!

Newly released data shows that DDoS and web application attacks are on the rise once again, according to Akamai’s Second Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet / Security …

gears
New infosec products of the week​: June 30, 2017

Protection against the impacts of malware, ransomware and DNS data exfiltration Akamai introduced Enterprise Threat Protector, a solution designed specifically to address the …

Fire
CLDAP reflection attacks generate up to 24 Gbps of traffic

Akamai researchers Jose Arteaga and Wilber Majia have identified a new Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) reflection and amplification method. CLDAP …

lights
New infosec products of the week​: February 10, 2017

Capsule8: Container-aware, real-time threat protection for Linux Capsule8 emerged from stealth mode to unveil its plans for the industry’s first container-aware, …

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