Check Point releases new DDoS Protector appliances
Check Point introduced a new line of security appliances designed to fight DDoS attacks. The DDoS Protector appliances deliver multi-layered protection and up to 12 Gbps of …
Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was …
Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks
Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short …
Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS
Fortinet introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are …
Anonymous’ supporters tricked into installing Zeus
Anonymous supporters that joined Operation Megaupload got more than they bargained for when they downloaded what they believed was the Slowloris DoS tool from a Pastebin post. …
25 alleged Anons arrested
25 individuals suspected to be Anonymous members have been arrested during a coordinated international operation supported by Interpol across four countries in Europe and …
Competitors blamed for over half of the DDoS attacks in the US
One in three organizations (31%) has suffered one or more Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the last 12 months, according to independent research commissioned by …
How Anonymous attacked the Vatican
Imperva released a report that reveals details on an attack by hacktivist group “Anonymous” against a high-profile unnamed target – revealed as the Vatican …
Akamai protects enterprises from DDoS and application security attacks
Akamai Technologies introduced Akamai Kona Site Defender, a service designed to protect the brand value of companies by shielding their web sites, applications and associated …
Smaller DDoS attacks can be deadlier than big ones
Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware instead found that bigger problems …
Unique Web malware hosts increase
The proper security tools can prevent infection or stop outbreaks, mitigate or reduce losses from malicious events, and even decrease legal liability. These products can also …
Tool used in Anonymous Megaupload campaign
Once again, Anonymous is using the low orbit ion canon (LOIC) to DDoS websites. This tool was developed by white hat hackers to stress test websites. Not surprisingly, the …
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