The PBot botnet was the most significant DDoS malware around in Q2 2017. Malicious actors employed decades-old PHP code to craft the largest attack that security firm Akamai observed in the second quarter of last year, according to its quarterly … [Read more...] about What was the PBot Botnet?
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An Early History of DDoS Attacks
The first DoS attack was launched in 1974 by a 13-year-old called David Dennis who attended high school across the street from the Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dennis realized he … [Read more...] about An Early History of DDoS Attacks