A Sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting the services of a host connected to a network. […]
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Encryption is one of the most basic necessities in the security arsenal. It’s what makes it possible for banks to offer online banking and funds transfers, or for consumers to make purchases online using their credit or debit cards. It’s
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There’s no doubt about it – DDoS attacks are getting worse. That concise bit of bad news leaves a lot of blanks to be filled in, however: in what way are they getting worse? How is that happening? What types
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In the past year, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have overwhelmed some of the largest websites, forcing Reddit, Twitter, and Netflix offline. DDoS attacks, which ambush businesses with huge amounts of traffic, slow websites to a crawl and force
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DNS amplification attacks have been used for several years. The Spamhaus attack of 2013 was the first large scale DDoS attack using DNS amplification. This attack reached up to 300Gbps and involved up to 30,000 open DNS resolvers. The attack
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‘Pay up or we’ll take your Website down’, so goes the adage that usually accompanies ransom-based cyber-attacks. Top of the news agenda in recent weeks, well-known names such as Evernote and Feedly have all fallen victim to extortion attacks, but
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They say knowing is half the battle. That seems particularly true when it comes to computer security, and defending against malware and cyber attacks. Firewalls, antivirus, and other security tools are still necessary and helpful, but the simple fact is
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Sony found itself on the receiving end of a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Sunday. The hacking collective known as Anonymous has taken credit, claiming the attack was intended to demonstrate continued weaknesses in Sony’s network security. The reality
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Definition: A denial of service (DoS) attack floods a network with an overwhelming amount of traffic, slowing its response time for legitimate traffic or grinding it to a halt completely. The more common attacks use built-in features of the TCP/IP
