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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, …

Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools

Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and …

Millions of GoDaddy sites go offline due to alleged DDoS attack

GoDaddy, on of the biggest and most popular Internet domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, has suffered an outage on Monday that left many of its …

DDoS attacks protection advice from the EFF

Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly common phenomena, used by a variety of actors—from activists to governments—to …

Critical vulnerabilities in popular DDoS toolkit exposed

Prolexic Technologies exposed weaknesses in the command and control (C&C) architecture of the Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family that could neutralize would-be attackers. …

DDoS attacks aimed at telecom systems are on the rise

DDoS attacks are usually seen as the domain of hacktivists and hackers looking to block – then blackmail – companies that are heavily dependent on their Internet …

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