A fresh report from Prolexic shows that the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for the second quarter of 2014 is lower, and that they were less powerful when compared to the first quarter. Prolexic, an Akamai subsidiary offering solutions for mitigating DDoS incidents at network, transport and application layers, released new information regarding the […]
Prolexic Technologies and Arbor Networks both issued warnings to organizations this week about the increased threat of NTP amplification DDoS attacks. According toAkamai-owned Prolexic Technologies, DDoS attacks using NTP amplification surged in popularity this year, fueled by the availability of new DDoS toolkits that make it easy to launch high-bandwidth, high-volume DDoS attacks against online […]
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Prolexic Technologies, a firm that specializes in DDoS protection solutions. On December 2, 2013, Akamai announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of Hollywood, Florida-based Prolexic for $370 million in cash. According to Akamai, the […]
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