Did you know that Google’s Chrome has built in DDoS protection? “implements a mechanism that is intended to prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks from being perpetrated, maliciously or accidentally, by web pages and extensions running within Chrome” More information on this can be found at the Chromium project page.
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ModSecurity (a TrustWave company) recently released its ModSecurity v2.5.13 (download) – which specifically caters to the Slow DoS issue. ModSecurity is essentially an Apache plug-in that acts as a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and is very good in mitigating malicious traffic like SQL Injections, XSS (Cross Site Scripting), etc. The Slow DDoS issue is one [...]
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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 »RIAA – the Recording Industry Association of America ‘s website has been down since Friday, after ‘Anonymous’ citied they will attack the website and also the law firm assisting them. As of 1st November 2010 11GMT the website is still down and is a victim of a distributed denial of service attack. The ghost group [...]
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VMWare specialist hosting company HPC Host got hit with a large scale DDoS attack on Friday. Based out of Miami – HPC Host specializes in VMWare hosting and is considered to be a specialist in this. They got hit with a DDoS on Friday, which took down a couple of their subnets as well as [...]
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Members of the Anonymous Operation: Payback plan to launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against the RIAA website today, Friday October 29 at 4.00 pm EST. After the Tuesday shutdown of the LimeWire client, Anonymous is mighty angry. Anonymous, whose members also include people from the 4chan “/b/” bulletin board, does not usually announce and [...]
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Online adult entertainment giant, Hustler.com was hit with a large scale distributed denial of service attack. The attack happened on Friday at 1:45 p.m. (PDT) but was back up at 3:10 p.m. The DDoS attack was done by a vigilante group who call themselves 4Chan – they are doing this attack against Hustler.com becuase the [...]
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Minecraft.net – (Minecraft is a sandbox building game which allows players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world.) recently suffered a large scale ddos attack on its servers. The reason being that its creator Markus “Notch” Persson had not updated his servers, so it seems the DDoS was coming in from [...]
READ MORE »Arbor Networks introduced a new stand-alone DDoS mitigation product, Arbor Peakflow SP version 5.5. This product aims to target DDoS vulnerabilities in cloud computing and offers this as a way to assist hosting providers that provide dedicated servers. Previously, the company’s Peakflow SP and TMS (Threat Management Systems) had been integrated to provide a combination [...]
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Name: Anonymous Modus Operandi: Operation Payback. Latest victims: Intellectual Property Office, UK, Gene Simmons.com, RIAA, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, AiPlex, the British Phonographic Industry, and ACS:Law (more coming in as we write) What exactly is Operation Payback? It is a series of DDoS attacks and other hacking activities being carried out by a [...]
READ MORE »Defending copyrights and irritating the biggest Dos Attack network of hackers in the world is not as easy it seems. Ask KISS bassist Gene Simmons. Gene found his official website Gene Simmons.com had been subjected to DDoS attacks that brought down his website. This was after Simmons made headlines by announcing, “Make sure your brand [...]
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