As healthcare organizations update their technologies and pursue digital transformation, they heighten their network vulnerability by increasing their threat surfaces. Healthcare organizations can make tempting targets for botnet owners with large … [Read more...] about The Changing Challenges of Security in the Healthcare Industry
Are there Best Practices for the Entire Internet to Help Mitigate Against DDoS Attacks?
There are ways in which the many stakeholders involved in improving the Internet can reduce the threat of DDoS attacks. One of the most notable examples of joint collaboration came out of the Network Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task … [Read more...] about Are there Best Practices for the Entire Internet to Help Mitigate Against DDoS Attacks?
DDoS Attacks in Europe Reduce by 60% Following Takedown of WebStresser
According to DDoS mitigation firm Link11, DDoS attacks have fallen by 60% across Europe following the takedown of WebStresser, which Europol described as the largest DDoS-for-hire service on the market. It was taken down on April 24th when various … [Read more...] about DDoS Attacks in Europe Reduce by 60% Following Takedown of WebStresser
A Case Study: How does the X4U Doser Tool Work?
X4U Doser, or X4UD, a free online tool for mounting DDoS attacks, was launched in the summer of 2016. It has been updated various times, and is now available in a 3.0 iteration. Its creator, a student calling themselves FathurION, describes it as “a … [Read more...] about A Case Study: How does the X4U Doser Tool Work?
New Scrubbing Center in Nigeria from 21st Century Technologies & Nexusguard
Today, 21st Century Technologies Limited, a leading computing firm in Nigeria, announced its partnership with Nexusguard, the San Francisco & Asia based DDoS mitigation company, to build its DDoS scrubbing center in Nigeria. The scrubbing center … [Read more...] about New Scrubbing Center in Nigeria from 21st Century Technologies & Nexusguard
DDoS and the Cryptocurrency Craze
DDoS attackers have gained a new target with the rise in value of cryptocurrency and the corresponding boom in new cryptocurrencies, namely the exchanges that power the trades between different cryptocurrencies, in addition to the computer systems … [Read more...] about DDoS and the Cryptocurrency Craze
Recursive GET and Random Recursive GET Attacks: What’s the Difference?
A Recursive GET attack is a variant of the Excessive Verb attack, or HTTP Flood, in which attackers send huge amounts of legitimate HTTP requests to a server to overwhelm it so that it will deny service to legitimate users. These can be in the form … [Read more...] about Recursive GET and Random Recursive GET Attacks: What’s the Difference?
What is a LAND Attack?
A LAND (Local Area Network Denial) attack is a DDOS attack that involves sending a special poison spoofed packet to a device, which makes it lock up. It also known as a Same Source/Dest Flood. The victim receives fake TCP SYN packets at an extremely … [Read more...] about What is a LAND Attack?
What is a Specially Crafted DDoS Attack?
In a specially crafted packet attack, attackers customize their approach to DDoS. Attention from the security community has recently focused more on these kinds of fragmented and application-layer DDoS attacks, in addition to the volumetric and … [Read more...] about What is a Specially Crafted DDoS Attack?
World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire Site’ – webstresser.org – is Taken Down
Law enforcement efforts worldwide working on ‘Operation Power Off’ have taken down the webstresser.org website, which police claim sold DDoS attacks, helping up to 136,000 registered users launch up to 4 million attacks worldwide. Four arrests … [Read more...] about World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire Site’ – webstresser.org – is Taken Down
MarketsandMarkets Report Says DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market will be Worth 4.10 Billion by 2023
A new report published by MarketsandMarkets anticipates that the DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market size will grow from $1.94B in 2018 to $4.10B by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 16.1% across that period. The report aims to … [Read more...] about MarketsandMarkets Report Says DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market will be Worth 4.10 Billion by 2023
Anomaly-based DDoS Attack Detection, According to Tezpur University Researchers
Researchers in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Tezpur University, located in Assam, India published a long essay on Anomaly based DDoS Attack Detection in 2015 in the International Journal of Computer Applications. What … [Read more...] about Anomaly-based DDoS Attack Detection, According to Tezpur University Researchers
What are SSL-based DDoS Attacks and How to Mitigate Them
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard security protocol used to establish encrypted links between a browser and server in online communication. Using SSL technology means that all data transmitted between server and browser is encrypted. A SSL or … [Read more...] about What are SSL-based DDoS Attacks and How to Mitigate Them
Princeton Machine Learning Detection of IoT DDoS
Researchers at Princeton just published a set of encouraging results showing that real-time detection of IoT DDoS attacks is possible using machine learning techniques. The Princeton team decided to focus on detecting IoT DDoS attacks because of … [Read more...] about Princeton Machine Learning Detection of IoT DDoS
The Two Classes of Feature Engineering Important to Detecting Attack IoT Traffic
There are two classes of features relevant to differentiating between normal and attack IoT traffic. These are stateless features, which are derived from flow-independent characteristics of individual packets and stateful features, which capture how … [Read more...] about The Two Classes of Feature Engineering Important to Detecting Attack IoT Traffic