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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 [...]

Great story: Bitcoin exchange BTCC stands firm against DDoS ransom hacker and wins

By Duncan Riley | Jan 6 2016

Bitcoin exchange BTCC Technology, Ltd. had an interesting time over the new year when it was targeted by a Bitcoin-for-DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. But in a great story we don’t see often enough, the company held steady and won, complete with a hilarious ending. The company first came under DDoS [...]

Akamai: DDoS will expand attack scope on gaming and technology companies in 2016

By Kyt Dotson | Jan 4 2016

Nothing infuriates Internet users more than slow loading, buffering and other evidence of a sluggish network. On the forefront of making certain that the “data must flow” is Akamai Technologies, Inc., a powerful Content Delivery Network (CDN) and cloud provider. As a content provider, Akamai is on the forefront of protecting its [...]

Nexusguard: 2016 will be the year of proactive, shared defense against DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 31 2015

In 2015, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were estimated to represent a significant portion of the $15.4 million per year cybercrime cost to average American firms (taken in a study from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP). Looking to 2016, and acknowledging the trends of previous years, it’s apparent that DDoS has [...]

Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 10 2015

On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt to knock them offline. The reasons for this attack and the perpetrators are both still a mystery, as reported [...]

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