Security expert Cricket Liu lays out the workings of a DNS-based DDoS attack -- and how to prevent one from hitting your company There’s no disputing that DNS is a critical component of computer ...

One of the easiest ways to protect your website or app is to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF can help protect your site from common DDoS attacks by letting only safe requests through and ...

Threat groups are constantly getting more sophisticated in their attempts to evade detection and enact harm. One common tactic that many security practitioners have witnessed is carrying out ...

Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

What's in a DDoS attack? First of all, these attacks have changed a lot over time. Maybe not in terms of vectors, per se, but in terms of sophistication, for one thing. We remember the earlier, more ...

The US government has published new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack guidance for public sector entities to help prevent disruption to critical services. The document is designed to serve ...

Hitachi Solutions teamed with application security firm Radware in a deal that will have Hitachi’s IT services arm offer Radware’s cloud application protection service, a cloud-based solution designed ...

Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, known as DDoS, are considered by many security experts to be the single largest threat to cloud computing. DDoS attacks are reported as comprising 5 percent of ...

Average packet-per-second (PPS) DDoS attack sizes surged 242% between the first and second halves of 2024, highlighting the need for greater threat mitigation. Network-based DDoS attacks continue to ...

HOLLYWOOD, FL – (October 10, 2012) – Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that it has published a new white paper in its Executive ...