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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Rik Ferguson is a Solutions architech for Trend Micro. He has written a decent 3 part post on The History of Botnets. The History of Botnets Part I The History of Botnets Part II The History of Botnets Part III Rik’s page on Business Computing World (UK)
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Within the DDoS appliance space, those appliances that do DPI or session handling, it is very important to understand how the setup rates comes into play. Each appliance, be it DPI or Sessions based Proxy appliance or just plain Layer 2/3 Filtering devices, these devices have to look at traffic at very high speeds. Each [...]
READ MORE »DDOS Attack – Now What? When you are hit with a distributed denial of service attack, your options can be very limited to mitigate it. First of all relax. No one is dying. No need to get panicky. Yes, you’re under attack, but like I said, no one is dying. When you get panicky and edgy, [...]
READ MORE »Myanmar (formerely known as Burma), that Asian country that gets into news for all the wrong reasons, is now under a massivs DDoS Attack. Arbor Network’s Security Engineering & Response Team (SERT) is reporting on their blog, that the country’s defacto service provider, Ministry of Post and Telecommunication was ordered by the government to cut [...]
READ MORE »ESet the makers of NOD32 antivirus software have a blog that is truly worth reading. You can access the blog at: http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/
READ MORE »Here is what I would call a well-written article on explaining DoS attacks, especially the difference between a network level DoS attack and an Application layer DoS attack. The article is written by Ryan Barnett is Director of Application Security Research at Breach Security, WASC Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project Leader and OWASP ModSecurity Core [...]
READ MORE »It seems even game server administrators sometimes cannot endure rivals. So this game server admin in China decides to do a DDoS to level the competition, only to get arrested himself. Read this interesting article here at CRENK.COM.
READ MORE »From one of the person’s associated with Java.net – a posting on her blog shows that they have been experiencing some DDoS attacks. Not sure which area of the domain is getting the attack, but I am speculating that it would probably be their repository.
READ MORE »Stumbled upon this blog http://nix101.com/ – worth reading. Talks a lot about DDoS and how to mitigate it, no-nonsense reading. Check out also the rate-limiting script for Apache aptly called BARF! The script is here.
READ MORE »BitBucket.org which is a code hosting website service [for the Mercurial (software) that is used extensively by software developers] got hit by a massive DDoS attack. BitBucket which is hosted on Amazon’s Cloud suffered major outage this past weekend. For a company that relies on the Amazon cloud for uptime, scalability and reliablity, this DDoS [...]
READ MORE »Here is a blog from Argentina. Albeit it is in Spanish, I’ve used Google Translations to convert it to English. This is a really informative blog. The knowledge and information disseminated from this blog is invaluable. Original Blog in Spanish. Google Translated Blog in English.
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