Online retailers are looking forward to a very merry holiday season as digital sales are expected to increase 25 percent this year. Some sellers may miss out of profits, however: Using distributed ...
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) made lots of headlines in late October when a massive DDoS attack on Domain Name System (DNS) service provider Dyn temporarily disrupted some of the most popular ...
Lately, DDoS attackers have been increasingly focused on smaller attacks launched persistently over a long period of time. The trend has been prevalent throughout the last couple of years thanks to ...
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 ...
I am sure all of you know its meaning. For those new to the term, it is “distributed” Denial of Service – caused by the way too many requests to the server than it can handle. When unable to process ...
Dependability is crucial to any business. Customers come to organizations with the expectation that products and services will be delivered on time. This is perhaps nowhere more critical than at ...
As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...
Dealing with a distributed denial-of-service attack such as the one that took down The SCO Group Inc.’s Web site this week continues to be a major challenge for companies, security experts said. But ...
Both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network faced serious DDoS attacks on Christmas Day 2014, leaving the popular online networks significantly limited or completely inaccessible for millions. With the ...