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Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex targeted in DDoS attack amid cryptocurrency bull market

By Duncan Riley | Jun 14 2017

Leading bitcoin exchange Bitfinex advised customers that they were being targeted by a distributed denial of service attack Wednesday following a similar attack the day before. The attack, which involves a company’s servers being flooded with data in an attempt to take its services offline, did not affect bitcoin and Ethereum trading. [...]

Hackers take no holidays: 2017 DDoS attacks rise fivefold

By Kyt Dotson | Jun 6 2017

Distributed denial-of-service attacks rose by a stunning 380 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released by Nexusguard Inc. today, Furthermore, attackers showed a stronger tendency towards using global holidays to do their deeds, with a greater number of attacks occurring during Valentine’s Day and the Chinese [...]

Amazon enters the DDoS mitigation business with AWS Shield

By Duncan Riley | Dec 2 2016

Amazon Web Services has entered the distributed denial of service mitigation business with a new service launched at the re:Invite conference in Las Vegas Thursday. Called AWS Shield, the new managed service protects web applications against DDoS attacks in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 and protects [...]

Linode struck by ‘catastrophic DDoS attack’ over Labor Day weekend

By Kyt Dotson | Sep 6 2016

Hosting provider Linode LLC was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the Labor Day weekend that intermittently took services offline. The company boasts that it is one of the world’s top providers of virtual private servers (VPS) and according to BuiltWith.com the company hosts over 500,000 websites [...]

Pokemon GO goes down following DDoS attack from Poodle Corp.

By Duncan Riley | Jul 17 2016

A group by the name of Poodle Corp. has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack that has taken the servers of insanely popular augmented reality game Pokemon GO offline. The attack, which started just prior to the game being launched in 26 new countries, started Saturday and continued [...]

Neustar and Limelight partner up to fight DDoS on the open Internet

By Kyt Dotson | May 24 2016

Neustar, Inc., real-time content neutral provider of information analysis services, and Limelight Networks Inc., global leader in digital content delivery, have joined forces to enable business customers to weather Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The partnership combines Neustar’s DDoS mitigation solution SiteProtect with Limelight’s content delivery network (CDN) to provide what [...]

Painful irony: DDos protection provider suffers data breach

By Robert Pleasant | Mar 12 2016

It would be a painful irony for a company specializing in cyber security to get hacked. While that may be the case for Staminus Communications, it focuses on providing protection against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, rather than the hack that targeted it, so now its sensitive data has been leaked. [...]

Google launches Project Shield to crusade against DDoS attacks

By Mike Wheatley | Feb 25 2016

Attacking your enemies online can be incredibly cheap. For those who know where to look, it can cost as little as $150 to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a website and take it offline. Well, Google happens to think that’s not fair, and so today it’s launching a [...]

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 6: Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service additions, Isle of Man cryptocurrency, BTCC ignores DDoS ransom, Cryptsy trading shut down

By Kyt Dotson | Jan 6 2016

The new year for Bitcoin is fully upon us with a great deal of news spanning the entire community. Blockchain-related technologies continue to take the forefront with Microsoft’s Azure cloud Blockchain-as-a-Service, which has added BitPay, Manifold Technology, LibraTax and Emercoin. Enterprise blockchain platform provider Gem just netted the first venture capital of [...]

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