Feb 12, 2014
A high alert DDoS threat advisory has been issued for the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit that makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to launch crippling reflection attacks and will likely be widely adopted in the DDoS as a service market, potentially increasing the...
Jan 22, 2014
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks grew throughout 2013, according to the top 10 attack trends published by Prolexic Technologies. Throughout the year, metrics were collected from all DDoS attacks launched against the company’s global client base by the...
Nov 22, 2013
Retailers around the world are at risk of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the festive season and into the new year. Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has announced the results of a survey of...
Oct 29, 2013
DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in the third quarter of 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to a report from Prolexic Technologies, a provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services. “This quarter, the major concern...
Oct 7, 2013
On the flipside of the bandwidth boom in South Africa there has been a significant increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at an application level in the country, says Perry Hutton, regional director – Africa, Fortinet. Until recently, distributed...
