Cloudflare goes down again, taking with it websites that rely on it
Web accelerator and CDN provider Cloudflare has become such a critical component of the web that when it goes down, so do many others.
Web accelerator and CDN provider Cloudflare has become such a critical component of the web that when it goes down, so do many others.
Vulnerable Apache Hadoop YARN offers the door to bigger bandwidth distributed denial of service attacks and cryptocurrency mining.
GitHub was taken offline for 10 minutes by the biggest traffic attack on record.
Memcached abuse can amplify traffic attacks by tens of thousands of times.
Basic DDoS protection will soon be a given for apps run on AWS and Azure infrastructure, but intel will cost more.
Protecting your network from DDoS attacks starts with planning your response. Here, security experts offer their best advice for fighting back.
George V. Hulme | 16 Sep | Read more
DDoS attacks have increased in complexity so that they are no longer an annoyance causing a disruption in service.
Kacy Zurkus | 03 Dec | Read more
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By Rene Paap, product marketing manager, A10 Networks | 06 Apr | Read more
The timing and targets in a recent wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has some security experts pointing the finger at North Korea. After all, the attacks coincided with the rogue state's firing of missiles during the July 4 Independence Day Weekend and the U.S. and South Korea were the countries in the cyber crosshairs.
Bill Brenner | 09 Jul | Read more
For over a year now, F5 Labs and our data partner, Loryka, have been monitoring the ongoing hunt by attackers to find vulnerable IoT devices they can compromise. In our first report, DDoS’s Newest Minions: IoT Devices, our research proved what many security experts had long suspected: IoT devices were highly vulnerable to exploit, the level of interest in exploiting them was high, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using these devices were already occurring. Our findings and conclusions in Volume 11 rang true, and the new numbers show even steeper growth than we had imagined.