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DDoS
UDP flood attacks becoming increasingly powerful

When it comes to quantitative indicators, the last quarter can be marked by significant quantitative decline, according to DDoS-GUARD. The number of detected DDoS attacks is …

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DDoS and web application attacks keep escalating

Akamai Technologies released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report, which highlights the cloud security landscape, specifically trends with DDoS and …

DDoS
Business still ill-prepared to handle modern DDoS attacks

In September 1996, New York City’s original ISP, Panix, was hit by a SYN flood denial of service attack that took them offline for several days. At a time when only 20 million …

DDoS Downtime Calculator
DDoS downtime calculator based on real-world information

Are you wondering how you can assess the risks associated with a DDoS attack? Incapsula’s free DDoS Downtime Calculator offers case-specific information adjusted to the …

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US 911 emergency system can be crippled by a mobile botnet

What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911 emergency system across the US? According to researchers from Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev’s …

IoT
Mirai Linux Trojan corrals IoT devices into DDoS botnets

Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently …

DDoS
Subverting protection into DDoS attacks

On average, DNSSEC reflection can transform an 80-byte query into a 2,313-byte response, an amplification factor of nearly 30 times, which can easily cause a network service …

Industry
The economic impact of security incidents on critical information infrastructures

Cyber security incidents affecting CIIs (Critical Information Infrastructures) are considered nowadays global risks that can have significant negative impact for several …

DDoS
DDoS attacks increase 83%, Russia top victim

DDoS attacks increased 83 percent to more than 182,900 attacks in the second quarter of the year, according to Nexusguard. The newest report shows that Russia has become the …

Connect
Cyber synergy: The need for collaborative cyber intelligence

It’s official – cybercrime now has a bigger impact than any other form of crime in the UK. That’s the conclusion drawn by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Strategic Cyber …

DDoS
DDoS attacks continue to escalate in both size and frequency

Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data for the first six months of 2016 that shows a continuing escalation in the both the size and frequency of attacks. …

DDoS
DDoS extortion campaigns increasingly target businesses

80 percent of European IT security professionals expect their business to be threatened with a DDoS ransom attack during the next 12 months, according to Corero Network …

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