Update: 7:41 Saturday (GMT) – US Chamber’s moving their website to DoSArrest was supposed to help solve their issue of being able to sustain a DDoS attack. Well unfortunately that did not turn out in their favor. As of writing of this article, the website for US Chamber is still down, and the A record [...]
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Bloomberg editorial covers a great article which shows that for pennies an hour, hackers can rent servers on Amazon’s EC2 (Cloud Computing) Service and do distributed denial of service attacks. The article examines how the FBI is investigating Amazon’s EC2 involvement in the attack against Sony’s PSN (Playstation Network). The article in full can be [...]
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Update: 8:25 Sunday (GMT) – Services are pretty much all restored, however, www.DirectNIC.com is still being blocked from many overseas location. It seems like their provider InterNAP is enforcing some Geo-block, so certain countries cannot access their network. Update: As of 14:27 Friday (GMT) – www.DirectNIC.com was still down, and customers still affected. Domain registrar DirectNIC [...]
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Summary: Jakub Alimov from the Seznam.cz and minor from Zone-h.org has published a paper that was presented at the “Security & Protection of Information” conference in the Czech republic that outlines how a new form of DDoS attack that currently exists. This informative article can be read in its entirety http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4739.
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Here are some relevant videos that explain in a heuristic sense of what distributed denial of service attacks are. Arbor Networks – PeakFlow DDoS How a DDoS Attack Works
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Cloud Application security and acceleration services company CloudFlare [read this article on CloudFlare's offering], recently updated its blog on how it can mitigate DDoS Attacks for its clients. The blog entry on a customer’s testimonial of being a DDoS attack recipient and how CloudFlare saved the day, can be read here. CloudFlare, essentially can be categorized as a CDN [...]
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Ruby application hosting company, Heroku, recently got hit by a large DDoS Attack. The distributed denial of service attack was in the form of a SYN flood attack. Hreoku provides a cloud based platform for building and hosting Ruby applications. A very detailed and forthcoming status update shows how Heruko learned of the DDoS attack [...]
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Here is a recent podcast done by OWASP on DDoS Attacks. The podcast guest was Alex Behar (see brief below) from Radware. The podcast (click here to listen) talks about the DDoS attacks, and what is recently being seen and how companies are working to mitigate such attacks. Alex Behar is Director of Security Products [...]
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The United Kingdom public sector union website has been under a distributed denial of service attack for the past couple of days. The website http://www.pcs.org.uk/ is not opening up. No one seems to have a convincing reason as to why this website would be suffering a DDoS Attack. The Public Sector Union has their annual [...]
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Introduction: Insurance Policy for DDoS Attacks by Scott N. Godes It seems that 2011 has been the year of cyberattacks – denial of service attacks, data breaches, and more. Would you insurance policies cover those events? Beyond the denial of service attacks that made news headlines, a shocking “80 percent of respondents” in a survey [...]
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Damballa just released a very good report on the modern DDoS Attacks Threat. As per the report’s brief: The breadth of cyber threats that an organization must engage with and combat seemingly change on a daily basis. Each new technology, vulnerability or exploit vector results in a new threat that must be protected against. Meanwhile [...]
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Arbor Networks today announced of a new appliance line called Pravail Availability Protection System (APS). Once you get pass the tongue-twister nomenclature, the product is a very well time and one that is correctly positioned. In short, it is an appliance to stop DDoS attacks… specifically to be deployed in the data-center in front of [...]
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