Irish government passwords were accessed and published last night as Anonymous retaliated to the passing of a copyright law. According to The Journal, a Twitter account used by the Swedish arm of Anonymous posted the passwords and email addresses of government users; it said the attack had been motivated by the government’s plans to introduce new [...]
20 Jan 2012 |
Prolexic Enhances Portal to Provide with greater visibility and insightProlexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced it has launched an enhanced Prolexic Portal, an online resource that provides customers with greater visibility and insight into Prolexic’s monitoring and cloud-based mitigation services. “The ProlexicPortal opens the door to a robust view of reports, graphs, alerts, and statistics [...] 
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18 Nov 2011 |
DDoS mitigation systems ‘under attack’The tactics used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have changed as culprits target mitigation equipment. According to Prolexic CTO Paul Sop, attackers know that businesses have some level of DDoS protection, so DDoS mitigation equipment is now being targeted. He also claimed that most technologies “do not have the capacity to process the ‘high packet [...]
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30 Sep 2011 |
Morto Worm Causes Network ChallangeThe Morto worm is considered a medium threat as it is easy to remove from your system once identified, however while on your system it has the ability to conduct denial of service (DoS) attacks by constricting your bandwidth. Most security vendors have identified the threat now, so it should not pose much if any [...]
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