FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – (March 12, 2014) – Prolexic Technologies the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, now part of Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), today issued a high ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing devices configured to publicly respond to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) requests over the Internet to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. This ...

From the middle of June to nearing the end of July, security company Incapsula helped a targeted video game company withstand a nonstop distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack utilizing numerous ...

Singapore, 8 th May, 2024 - New data from Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Trends Report 2024 reveals bad actors are shifting DDoS tactics. Computers and servers became the primary target of attacks, ...

Gaming and hosting companies have been hit with a new kind of DDoS attack that could snowball without preventive steps, Level 3 Communications warned on Monday. Attackers have figured out how to abuse ...

Attackers are abusing yet another widely used protocol in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks: the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is used for directory services ...

I have a few dumb devices (Gemtec IoT LoraWAN gateways) on one network that rely on NTP to function correctly. After they were installed, they worked for about 1 day then stopped relaying sensor info ...

With nearly every major threat to information security, it is not long before security experts ask the question, “Can the threat play a role in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks?” When it ...

Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what’s known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different ...

Ransomware has taken center stage in the cybercrime ecosystem, causing over $1 billion in losses last year around the world and earning criminals hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. At the ...