Tag: DDoS

Why global DDoS protection is essential for Anycast networks

Felix - January 22, 2022
PAID FEATURE In October 2021, in an incident lasting greater than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. This wasn’t a brief .com outage on the corporate’s main area however a whole shutdown of its public existence that additionally dragged into the darkness...

Why global DDoS protection is essential for Anycast networks • The Register

Felix - January 18, 2022
Paid Feature In October 2021, in an incident lasting greater than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. This wasn’t a brief .com outage on the corporate’s main area however a whole shutdown of its public existence that additionally dragged...

Cyber Security Today, Nov. 15, 2021 – Cyberattack hits Ottawa medical clinic, FBI email server hacked, and a record DDoS attack

Felix - November 17, 2021
Cyberattack hits Ottawa medical clinic, FBI email server hacked, and a record DDoS attack. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, November fifteenth. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing author on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.   An Ottawa medical clinic has been struck...

DDoS disrupts Belgian parliament. New malware strains in criminal campaign. Threat actors vs. MFA. Disinformation for business.

Felix - May 5, 2021
Attacks, Threats, and VulnerabilitiesBelgian public-sector network suffers cyberattack, affecting parliament (Computing) The assault disrupted a deliberate assembly of Belgian's Foreign Affairs, which had been because of talk about the human rights state of affairs in XinjiangXSS in the wild: JavaScript-stuffed...

New JenX IoT DDoS Botnet Offered Part of Gaming Server Rental Scheme

Felix - April 11, 2021
The operators of a gaming server rental enterprise are believed to have constructed an IoT DDoS botnet, which they're now providing as half of the server rental scheme. The prime and fairly apparent clue that ties this new IoT botnet...