DDoS attacks dominate the news nowadays. Large companies are frequently harassed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with great damage. Prolexic, a company that offers security services ...
For the aspiring attacker or pen tester, there is no shortage of attack tools, scripts, crimeware kits and exploits available online. But, the Internet being what it is, there’s always room for one ...
Anonymous is building a bigger, more vicious weapon to replace its current DDoS tool. The new attack program, called #RefRef, is being developed in time for the Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and ...
How hard is it to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack? Arguably, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has made launching DDoS attacks look easy, due to its high-profile DDoS campaigns ...
The concept of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks finally entered the mainstream public consciousness this month after assaults on the websites of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal made front page ...
Security researcher Amir Khashayar Mohammadi has released today a new tool named Memfixed that can help victims of DDoS attacks carried out via Memcached servers. The tool, written in Python, was ...
How hard is it to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack? Arguably, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has made launching DDoS attacks look easy, due to its high-profile DDoS campaigns ...
Security firm Prolexic has turned the tables on DDoS attackers, publishing a report revealing a swathe of basic vulnerabilities in the popular Dirt Jumper family of tools. Security firm Prolexic has ...
HOLLYWOOD, FL – (June 4, 2013) – Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that it has released a role-based version of PLXplanner, the ...
Researchers at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris (INFRES) have created a new computational method that could detect Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more efficiently and ...
Prolexic, a DDoS mitigation company, has now released a detailed advisory on the itsoknoproblembro DDoS toolkit used in these attacks. The hope is that by better understanding the malware’s ...