Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...
For some perspective on what 300 Gbps of traffic represents, let’s just pretend that your company, as a potential customer, put this massive volume of bits and bytes in front of 20 of the leading ...
NTP amplification attacks account for the majority of DDoS attacks that exceed 100 Gbps, according to Arbor Networks. No security arena is better representative of the cat and mouse game between ...
A company that helps secure websites has compiled a list of some of the Internet’s biggest network nuisances—operators that run open servers that can be abused to significantly aggravate the crippling ...
Although this week’s large-scale DDoS attack against Spamhaus may not have been as crippling as early reports suggested, they were noteworthy in that they shined spotlights on a couple of the Internet ...
Microsoft has released a security advisory to mitigate the NXNSAttack vulnerability in DNS servers that could be used to amplify a single DNS request into a DDoS attack against authoritative DNS ...
Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...