Attackers used one server in a massive DDoS attack against an organization in Europe, generating 400 Gbps of bad traffic at its peak via NTP amplification. The largest distributed denial of service ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can take on many different forms, as those who commit them leverage different techniques to drown Websites under a flood of traffic. The United States ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, USA: Prolexic Technologies issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. This attack method has surged in popularity this year, fueled by the availability of ...

Level 3 Communications has discovered a new type of reflection DDoS attack that takes advantage of RPC Portmapper to overwhelm networking services. A number web hosting providers and businesses in the ...

Web performance company CloudFlare reported that it mitigated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a French Website that reached a record-setting attack of almost 400 Gigabits per second ...

Security researchers are continuing to see DDoS attacks that leverage the UPnP features of home routers to alter network packets and make DDoS attacks harder to detect and mitigate with classic ...

Gaming and hosting companies have been hit with a new kind of DDoS attack that could snowball without preventive steps, Level 3 Communications warned on Monday. Attackers have figured out how to abuse ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing devices configured to publicly respond to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) requests over the Internet to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. This ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – (March 12, 2014) – Prolexic Technologies the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, now part of Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), today issued a high ...