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Large-scale DDoS attacks grow bigger and more diversified

In addition to increasing attack sizes, attack volume grew in Q4 2012 and reached the highest number of attacks Prolexic has logged for one quarter. Traditional Layer 3 and …

Aaron Swartz’s death triggers MIT investigation, website hack

The news that well-known Web activist and developer Aaron Swartz took his own life on Friday resounded across the Internet at an amazing speed during this past weekend. Many …

DDoS attackers on U.S. banks get help from hired botnets

It’s already common knowledge that major commercial bank in the U.S. are under a new series of DDoS attacks. As with the first one, the responsibility for this one that …

Arbor Networks updates security and traffic-monitoring platform

Arbor Networks announced the availability of version 5.8 of Peakflow SP, a network-wide infrastructure security and traffic-monitoring platform for service, hosting and cloud …

What DDoS attacks reveal about your security infrastructure

As we close out 2012, there is no doubt that this year will go down as epic in the history books of information security professionals. Looking back on the year it’s not …

Lancope releases new threat intelligence for detecting attacks

Lancope released new threat intelligence for monitoring global cyber attacks. Through its StealthWatch Labs Intelligence Center (SLIC), Lancope is now delivering two new …

Most Americans uninformed about DDoS attacks

Whether motivated by an extreme form of free expression or criminal intent, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) are increasingly commonplace worldwide. Yet …

65% of organizations experience three DDoS attacks a year

Despite the increasing sophistication and severity of cyber attacks, a survey of more than 700 senior IT professionals reveals that organizations are surprisingly unarmed to …

Radware introduces new attack mitigation solution

Radware introduced DefensePro x420, the next-generation hardware platform in the DefensePro application security suite. With the ability to handle 25 million packets per …

Protection against DDoS and targeted attacks

Corero Network Security announced its First Line of Defense solution, which blocks L3-L7 DDoS and advanced targeted server attacks. Cyber criminals/terrorists have reached a …

DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication

Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the …

Major U.S. banks still under DDoS attack

PNC Bank seems to be the latest target of the organized DDoS attacks agains major U.S. financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, …

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