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DoS Attacks Grow – Costs Drop!

Faisal Khan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:33:44 +0000

As with everything else in life, the number of attacks, in this case, DoS attacks have grown, whilst the cost of actually doing a DoS attack has dropped. Read more on this here.

BitBucket DDoS Attack – What Went Wrong?

Faisal Khan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:49:21 +0000

The Register has a well-written article on the post-DDoS scenario and analysis of what happened at BitBucket. BitBucket as you may know was a customer on the Amazon EC2 Cloud and it got DDoS’d big time. This article clearly spells out that it was actually Amazon that was at fault, by exposing their internal storage network to the outside world to be DDoS.

Read the complete article here.

Malware Economy Thriving. Buy a DDoS bot today!

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:35:13 +0000

Malware economy is thriving – especially in this downturn economy. You can even buy your own bot from $100, to $ 3,500.

Bots that can be used for stealing passwords, spamware, adware, ddos attacks, etc. are now available for sale if you know where to look.

Fix your Apache.

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:41:53 +0000

Apache webserver has an update – one that fixes an exploit that could enable/aid DoS – DDoS attacks.

Read the news article by ServerWatch.

World War III might just be fought over the Internet.

Faisal Khan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:12:23 +0000

Here is a very entertaining and thought provoking article to read. World War III might not be fought over land, but the digital space, aka, the Internet. Read this here.

BotNet Activity on the increase

Faisal Khan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:08:42 +0000

Botnet activity is on the increase. The recently discovered Maazben botnet is now rapidly increasing its share of malicious traffic. More on this here.

Researchers unmask two faces of zombie networks

Faisal Khan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:03:43 +0000

A relatively short article in The Register on botnets that are used to send spam emails.

Service proivders could finally get their act together…

Faisal Khan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:43:55 +0000

Botnets the herds of zombie (compromised) computers that together cause distributed denial of service attacks, need to be curtailed, but service providers have always thought of this as not their problem. Well, that notion could be changing soon. Working together service providers could put a noose around the botnets and strangling their bandwidth. Read more on this article here.

Website is down and under DDoS attack? Where to find DDoS protection?

Faisal Khan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:26:29 +0000

Here is an article in E-Commerce Journal. The article, which is adequately detailed, summarizes about DDoS attacks and where to seek help. The answers are provided by I guess Dragonara (a DDoS protection specialist).

The article in its entirety can be read here.

Cisco IOS Updates… Procrastination might lead to DDoS

Faisal Khan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:18:55 +0000

Cisco’s latest batch of 11 IOS updates that address various vulnerabilities in the world’s favorite Router OEM has Cisco itself worried, and rightly so. The vulnerabilities if exploited can do some serious harm vis-à-vis denial of service attacks.

Government Computer News covers this in a brief article.