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Sony PlayStation Network, other gaming networks blasted with DDoS attacks

By Kyt Dotson | Aug 25 2014

Over the weekend the PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Live, Blizzard’s Battle.net, and Grinding Gears Games reported massive network disruptions caused by large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks occurred around the same time that a bomb threat was made against an American Airlines plane carrying John Smedley, president of [...]

Facebook denies reward for DDoS exploit : Trouble still lurking?

By John Casaretto | Apr 28 2014

In practice, there are many ‘better’ ways to execute a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, however one programmer has uncovered a flaw in the ‘Notes’ feature within the social network site Facebook that could put such an attack tool into the hands of millions. In a blog post over the weekend, [...]

CloudFlare CEO predicted the monster EU 400 Gbps DDoS attack

By John Casaretto | Feb 11 2014

Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare confirmed in an email Monday evening that the attack on the CloudFlare network that day was indeed massive.   Like 400 Gbps massive. Data reported since the email indicate that the scale of the massive NTP reflection attack indeed hit 400Gbps – a whopping number that is [...]

Transaction ID malleability attack spreads to Bitcoin-wide DDoS attempt

By Kyt Dotson | Feb 11 2014

It all started with such humble beginnings: when MtGox blamed the Bitcoin protocol for their own woes of poorly implemented code. Then someone decided to use what had been harassing MtGox network-wide and exchanges across the Bitcoin industry itself started checking their own code. The attack takes advantage of a characteristic of [...]

British spooks launched DDoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivists

By Mike Wheatley | Feb 5 2014

It’s not only the bad guys who carry out distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on their targets. Oh no, sometimes the ‘good guys’ will get up to the same old tricks. According to new documents released from former NSA contractor Ed Snowden and obtained by NBC News, British spy agency GCHQ launched a secret [...]

The plight of gaming networks and the threat of DDoS on the modern Internet

By Kyt Dotson | Feb 4 2014

It’s the evening and numerous video game players are getting home from work and school–but when they try to log into their favorite game but in this scenario they can’t because the servers are down. Not because of a configuration error, or an employee accidentally flipping the wrong switch, it’s because some [...]

Black Lotus delivers DDoS and network protection for all

By John Casaretto | Jan 27 2014

A recent briefing with Black Lotus executives Arman Khalili and Xenophon Giannis gave us a look behind the operation, some trends in the industry, and also announced a free tier to their DDoS protection services.  Black Lotus is in the business of maintaining site availability and protection from the dreaded Distributed Denial [...]

CloudFlare CEO predicts a big year of DDoS threats ahead

By John Casaretto | Dec 31 2013

As we look at what lies ahead in security, we find that subject of DDoS has come up again and again. So we went straight to CloudFlare for some predictions in 2014.  CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince dropped in to answer some questions about the threat landscape. Prince: There’s two big trends ahead in [...]

NSFOCUS anticipates a big year for DDoS threats in 2014

By John Casaretto | Dec 24 2013

As we look at the year ahead, predictions on cyber security are coming forward from throughout the industry.  Today’s prediction series comes from cyber security expert Vann Abernethy of NSFOCUS, an anti-DDoS firm.  Abernethy focuses on one of the most painful attacks in the industry, DDoS attack.  He addresses the various attack [...]

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