The 1.2Tbps DDoS attack against Dyn is the tip of the iceberg. According to some sources, script kiddies used 100,000 infected devices to launch the attack against Dyn. Now for the scary part: if amateurs were able to cause this
Brian Krebs, whose website recently underwent a 620 Gbps DDoS attack, reported that an identified botnet trojan has been confirmed to be the malware responsible. Recently, the source code for the botnet (DDoS Malware) was made public on the Hackerforums
Who would have ever thought that Akamai’s biggest customers shifting their content delivery efforts in-house and leaving Akamai with a ton of excess network capacity was a good thing? Well, it’s more than good – it’s great, because all that
Supposedly, BBC was knocked offline during the holidays by a DDoS Attack. Thereafter, Akamai, always the one wanting to play hero, rescued the damsel in distress. It wasn’t a massive volumetric attack, because in order to qualify as massive, it
Valve Corporation finally announced more details regarding the security breach that occurred during Christmas. Steam Database, an independent forum supporting the Steam community previously speculated that Valve pushed out a caching misconfiguration update to its production environment that resulted in
According to various reports, Rackspace was hit with a DDoS attack on its DNS services that impacted its domains, along with customer websites. Their service was fully restored after 12 hours. The attack occurred against 3 data centers: Northern Virginia,
Code Spaces, a Subversion and Git hosting service recently encountered a DDoS attack. We know how the story goes – an attacker try’s to blackmail an online company into paying a fee to stop a DDoS attack, the company rejects
eToro, one of the leading online trading platforms for currency and commodities traders, with 2.75 million users in 140 countries was knocked offline by a DDoS attack. The eToro platform allows traders to share and discuss trades, positions and other
Ancestry.com, the global leader in family online history, and genealogy with 2+ million members was knocked offline for two days, starting on Monday. The company spokeswoman Heather Erickson said that bogus traffic flooded their servers, and their servers couldn’t keep
Bizety’s infrastructure providers are currently experiencing a DDoS attack. A couple of months back, Bizety experienced its first DDoS attack when StatCounter and Aweber, two vendors we use for plugin functionality, got hit in a massive DDoS attack in a
The Content Delivery Network adds a critical security layer to any Defense-in-Depth strategy. The CDN is just as important as the firewall, or intrusion detection system, when it comes to mitigating certain types of attacks. With the corporate computer network
DDoS attacks are a common occurrence for CDNs. Some are small in nature, and others are 400Gbps in size, as in the case of CloudFlare. The CloudFlare attack was a simple network attack. All CDNs provide protection against simple network
Something interesting happened yesterday, while writing about cyber security and CDNs, I experienced my first DDoS attack, that hit two service providers, whose plug-ins I use for my WordPress website. I currently host my WordPress site on WPEngine, the best
