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More than half of businesses have faced IoT-related attacks, yet only a third consider IoT cyber security “very important.” Continue reading IoT Security Disconnect: As Attacks Spike, Device Patching Still Lags
The bar has been raised.
As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack.
Network security and monitoring company Arbor … Continue reading 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack — Memcached UDP Reflections Set New Record
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We take a look at the colossal DDoS attack on GitHub, the largest-ever on record. How did threat actors do it, and what can companies do to protect against it?
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This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts. Continue reading In Wake of ‘Biggest-Ever’ DDoS Attack, Experts Say Brace For More
This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts. Continue reading In Wake of ‘Biggest-Ever’ DDoS Attack, Experts Say Brace For More
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub’s code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps.
Interestingly, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfig… Continue reading Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website
GitHub suffered and survived a record 1.35-terabit-per-second denial of service attack on Wednesday, an unprecedented deluge of traffic that’s spotlighting just how powerful “amplification attacks” can be — and a new attack vector experts predict is about to become a lot more common. The top comment on the Hacker News discussion says it all: “Wow, 1.35Tbps? That’s a lot for a DoS attack, right?” It’s still early in 2018, but that could be the understatement of the year so far. Wednesday’s attack counts as the most powerful denial of service barrage against a single site in history. It’s significantly larger than the size of the 2016 Mirai botnet attacks that brought down a host of the internet’s biggest websites through an attack on Dyn that rippled out to other sites dependent on the company’s infrastructure and DNS services. GitHub went down a number of times during this week’s attack until traffic was moved to […]
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GitHub suffered and survived a record 1.35-terabit-per-second denial of service attack on Wednesday, an unprecedented deluge of traffic that’s spotlighting just how powerful “amplification attacks” can be — and a new attack vector experts predict is about to become a lot more common. The top comment on the Hacker News discussion says it all: “Wow, 1.35Tbps? That’s a lot for a DoS attack, right?” It’s still early in 2018, but that could be the understatement of the year so far. Wednesday’s attack counts as the most powerful denial of service barrage against a single site in history. It’s significantly larger than the size of the 2016 Mirai botnet attacks that brought down a host of the internet’s biggest websites through an attack on Dyn that rippled out to other sites dependent on the company’s infrastructure and DNS services. GitHub went down a number of times during this week’s attack until traffic was moved to […]
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Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets. Continue reading Misconfigured Memcached Servers Abused to Amplify DDoS Attacks