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Report: DDoS Attacks Have Slowed, But Increased in Size
DDoS Attacks are nothing new. In fact, hackers have been maliciously flooding servers since 1999. But in October 2016, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks suddenly became far more relevant to the everyday web surfer, after Dyn — one of the world’s leading DNS providers — suffered the largest DDoS attack in history. The
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Oracle Acquires Dyn to Grow Cloud Computing Platform
Oracle Corp. announced today it signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, the cloud-based internet performance and DNS provider. The news comes one month after Manchester, N.H.-based Dyn reported a major Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that crippled major websites including Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and even its own.
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You Can Bring Down a Website for $38
Could you pass up a $40,000 return on a $20 investment? Odds are you couldn't if you enjoy wreaking havoc on a business. New research released today by Incapsula shows distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults continue to be expensive nuisances for online businesses — and that the attacks can
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Discussion Point: Security Experts Respond to the State of the Union Address
Cybersecurity wasn't even the stuff of dreams when George Washington delivered the first State of the Union message to Congress on Jan. 8, 1790. But fast forward to 2015 and there it was, playing a prominent role in Barack Obama's annual address to the nation.
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Discussion Point: Is the Cloud Really Secure?
Cloud computing is on the rise, but with it comes new fears about data security. Cybercriminals are always looking for an in, so cloud services constantly need to stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities. Nothing has driven that point home more than a flurry of recent high-profile breaches.
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'Lizard Squad' Targets Sony in New DDoS Attack
Today brought more hacker woes for Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Network in the form of a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a vandal collective known as "Lizard Squad.
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Discussion Point: How Big are Data Security Threats?
You may have heard that some cyber criminals in Russia recently stole more than a billion user IDs and passwords -- yes, that's billion with a "B.
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Googlebot Imposters Attack, Hack and Spam Your Site
According to new research released today by Incapsula, a web security firm, millions of these “evil twins” are used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attacks, hacking, spam, content theft and other shady activities on a daily basis.
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World Cup Website Hacked: Is Yours Vulnerable, Too?
Hacktivists have delivered on their promise to take down Brazil’s official World Cup website, effectively disrupting this year’s competition and adding significant weight to their ongoing global threats to use of computers and computer networks to promote political ends, This is no surprise, according to Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and
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FBI Warns: Check Your Windows PC for a RAT
The latest warning from the FBI bears a strange resemblance to a trailer for a poltergeist experience.
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Hacked! Attack of the DDoS Protection Services
DDoS attacks sabotage corporate websites to make them unavailable to legitimate visitors. Researchers at Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and performance service, said DDoS attacks are getting stronger, faster, bigger and smarter.
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How Hackers Can Use Facebook, Google to Crash Your Website
Watch your website — and this time, you have bigger threats than viral videos or suspected porn. Hackers can apparently exploit vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on target websites — and neither Internet giant seems overly concerned, according to the developer that alerted
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Incapsula Names the Site Hackers Used in Major DDoS Attack
A few weeks ago, we told you how hackers used a novel technique to get thousands of online video viewers to unwittingly bombard a B2B website with junk traffic. Incapsula, a web security firm, said the attack resulted from a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on one of the
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Hackers Use Viral Videos to Attack B2B E-Commerce Site
You probably never thought about kittens, zombies and porn in the same breath — and the imagery gets even weirder if you throw the words "B2B e-commerce" into the mix.
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