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.
Internet of Things security woes rears its head again.
The high-profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that brought down Australia’s online 2016 eCensus have dramatically changed the attitudes of Australian executives who, the newly appointed local head of one leading anti-DDoS provider says, are actively engaging with vendors to avoid suffering a similar fate.
David Braue | 15 Mar | Read more
Businesses may be actively pursuing new opportunities to leverage new devices and cloud services, but many are struggling to protect their technological investments with security frameworks that also offer better business outcomes.
David Braue | 13 Feb | Read more
The inauguration of Donald Trump as US president led some to wonder whether a DDoS attack on Whitehouse.gov can be considered as a legitimate protest like any other. There was also buzz as outgoing president Obama’s pardon of secret leaker Chelsea Manning led to [an offer by Julian Assange to face extradition to the US.
David Braue | 23 Jan | Read more
Connected gadgets are sure to show up under Christmas trees next month but Australians are still well behind the curve when it comes to securing them, one technologist has warned as new survey results suggest that many users still can’t pick out a phishing email – and that 4 in 5 users have no idea their home Wi-Fi networks have the potential to be compromised.
David Braue | 24 Nov | Read more
It's still unclear who pulled off Friday's massive internet disruption, but the malware largely responsible for the cyber attack has since been found assaulting new targets -- possibly video gamers.
Michael Kan | 28 Oct | Read more
Last Friday’s attack that cut access to dozens of popular websites was likely carried out by kids rather than Russia or another state actor, according to a firm that’s been closely tracking the incident.
The attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn today were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of.
Tim Greene | 22 Oct | Read more
The source code for a trojan that infected hundreds of thousands of internet-of-things devices and used them to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks was published online, paving the way for more such botnets.
Lucian Constantin | 04 Oct | Read more
The botnets made up of compromised IoT devices are now capable of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks of unprecedented scale.
Lucian Constantin | 27 Sep | Read more