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Interview with DDOS Mitigation Veteran Barrett Lyon, Co-Founder and CTO of Defense.Net

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Mar

2014

After distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks abusing Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers, security companies have started issuing warnings about attacks abusing vulnerable WordPress websites. In one single attack, a total of 162,000 WordPress sites were used. Weve reached out t…

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Prolexic Warns of Significant Increase in NTP Amplification DDOS Attacks

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Mar

2014

Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that abuse Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers for amplification are becoming more and more common. In fact, Akamai subsidiary Prolexic warned that in February, it detected a 371% increase in the number of such attacks. During the month of February, we saw the use of NTP amplification attacks surge 371 percent […]

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Largest DDoS attack ever nails company that protects against DDoS attacks

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Feb

2014

A company that is supposed to protect against DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks just suffered what appears to be the largest one ever. According to IT News, CloudFlare, a content delivery network and security provider, said that the attack reached over 400 Gbps at its peak, 100 Gbps more than the previous record. The attackers appear […]

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