Tag: DDoS

A third more UK businesses faced distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2013, with some attacks lasting up to two days. ...

Project management website Basecamp was hit by a 20 Gbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and blackmail attempt yesterday. In a ...

More than 162,000 WordPress sites have been used in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after a HTTP-based (layer 7) distributed ...

More blackhats are being drawn to using The Onion Ring (TOR) to hide their online activity.   According to media ...

Could it be the end for Bitcoin- a mere five years after its conception? In latest developments, it appears that ...

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which was registered at 400Gbps has been spotted, eclipsing the Spamhaus attack from last year. ...

Imperva has acquired three firms and added cloud DDoS mitigation technologies to its product offering. The company announced last night ...

The Waking Shark 2 exercise has been described as a waste of time.   In an email to IT Security ...

The second Waking Shark stress test exercise has been deemed a success, with participants calling for stronger attacks next time. ...

Akamai has announced that it plans to acquire cloud-based security vendor Prolexic for $370 million (£226 million).   Adding cloud-based ...