Societe Generale’s CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) recently released an Incident Response cheatsheet (in the public domain) for DDoS Attacks. You usually don’t see much of these around. The cheatsheet can be viewed/downloaded from here: IRM-4 DDoS (PDF 196K) Societe Generale’s Official CERT Page can be accessed: at: http://cert.societegenerale.com/en/
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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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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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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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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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Verisign recently conducted a webinar for hosting providers (large datacenters) for protecting their network/infrastructure from distributed denial of service attacks. The webinar was aptly titled: “Verisign webinar DDoS Solution Planning: Protecting Your Hosting Environment.” Short description: The Verisign® Internet Defense Network provides organizations with reliable and scalable Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services. As [...]
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Arbor Network‘ Infrastructure Security Report is fast becoming the bible by which one can gauge the way threats and solutions on the Internet are shaping our. Arbor’s 6th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report was recently released and is worth a read. If you are concerned about the emerging threats, some credible statistics and trends and how can [...]
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally launched a probe into the DDoS attacks that were done by the group “Anonymous” on the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 4-Chan’s group “Anonymous” launched a series of distributed denial of service attacks on many websites associated with RIAA, that also includes Hustler Magazine, rocker Gene [...]
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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 [...]
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Business, Financial and Tax management company, Intuit fell victim to DDoS attacks on Thursday. The attack on their website was roughly going on for about 2 1/2 hours (from Noon to 2:30 PM) Pacific Time where their website was completely offline. For a very small group, access to the website was not restored till evening. [...]
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 »Riverbed Technologies recently filed for a patent that is related to network anomaly detection, more specifically: Connection Table for Intrusion Detection. The patent information filed can be read here. The summary of the patent filing is as follows: According to an aspect of the invention, memory device storing a data structure for tracking network behavior, [...]
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