Prolexic Technologies, a provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services that was recently acquired by Akamai Technologies, today warned organizations about a new version of an attack toolkit that makes it easy for attackers to launch DNS flood attacks. The toolkit, DNS Flooder v1.1, makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to […]
According to a new report from Prolexic Technologies, a provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services that was recently acquired by Akamai Technologies, mobile applications are being increasingly used in DDoS attacks and are creating mitigation challenges. Prolexic said that data gathered from attacks against its customers during Q4 shows that mobile devices […]
Cloud services provider Akamai has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Prolexic Technologies, one of the main distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) protection solutions providers, for around $370 million (273 million) in cash. Prolexic technologies will be used by Akamai to extend its optimization and security offerin…
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