Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is investigating a DDoS attack that temporarily blocked access to several of its European and Middle Eastern sites over the weekend.
Recently in the news, websites go down when a service provider has a problem.
Today's successful digital strategies should include a secondary DNS solution capable of providing your company and customers with:
Increased redundancy in the event of an outage
A separate DDoS protection strategy to defeat...
A massive botnet attack earlier this year utilized more than 400,000 connected devices over the course of 13 days, according to researchers at the security firm Imperva.
Large attacks are growing as multi-vector exploits increasingly become the norm. In this report, Neustar, Inc. highlights new areas of growth in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks over the past year.
The report affirms that DDoS attacks continue to be an effective means to distract and confuse security...
Forty years after the first DDoS attack, hackers are developing new ways to disrupt network security. DDoS mitigation techniques continue to evolve as attacks continue to grow in size, complexity, and malice. The bad guys, themselves, have evolved, too.
Without a comprehensive security solution, it's not just your...
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly complex and they frequently employ multiple attack types and strategies such as multivector and diversionary attacks against a broad set of targets. Industry reports continue to illustrate that no one organization is safe.
Even though DDoS prevention...
Be it public, commercial, or private, cyber threat intelligence comes from many different sources and plays a vital role in an organization's cybersecurity strategy. But threat intelligence by itself is useless unless it can be made actionable.
So once you have that intelligence in hand, how do you enforce it at...
The government of Ecuador has been hit with millions of "cyberattacks" following its withdrawal of asylum protection for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his arrest by British police last week, an Ecuadorian official says.
DDoS attacks are getting larger in size and shorter in duration at a time when multicloud environments, which lack a single point of monitoring, are becoming more common, says Ashley Stephenson, CEO of Corero Network Security, who offers risk management insights.
Mirai, the powerful malware that unleashed unprecedented distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2016, has never gone away. And now a new version has been equipped with fresh exploits that suggest its operators want to harness the network bandwidth offered by big businesses.
Good bots vs. bad bots. How can you manage them if you can't tell the difference? Bad bots constitute one of the gravest threats to websites, mobile applications and APIs owned by businesses. Bots cause a range of business problems, such as account takeover, application DDoS, API abuse, web scraping, spam creation,...
More than ever before, companies are investing heavily in their organization's security. But as the threat landscape changes, how do you know that these investments in security are paying off - and how can you determine that you are investing the appropriate amount of security spending in the areas that matter most to...
Bot technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated and bot traffic right now makes up more than 50% of all internet traffic - more than human. It's a complex problem. The difference between bot and human activity is hard to differentiate, and we all operate in a system where bots solve many of our business...
Cybersecurity is like fighting a never-ending battle against a relentless foe. It's not about wiping out the threat for good; it's about staying one step ahead. Welcome to the battle. Bot Management is a crucial tactic in this ongoing battle. Right now, over 50% of internet traffic is bots. However, not all bot...
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