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  • US man arrested over Aussie DDoS attacks

    A 37 year-old US citizen has been arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

    Written by Samira Sarraf28 July 17 09:40
  • ​Regaining trust after a digital government failure

    Who could forget #censusfail last year? After a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and concerns over potential loss of data during the 2016 Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Census site was shut down for days. Once it was eventually restored on 11 August 2016, it was successfully used by millions of Australians to submit their census data.

    Written by Dean Lacheca30 March 17 14:59
  • How the Dyn DDoS attack unfolded

    The attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn today were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of.

    Written by Tim Greene22 Oct. 16 10:52
  • ​4 trends in DDoS security in 2016

    Margee Abrams examines some emerging trends that are likely to affect DDoS security requirements.

    Written by Margee Abrams17 Nov. 15 09:39
  • Under DDoS attack? Look for something worse

    When businesses are hit by noticeable DDoS attacks, three-quarters of the time those attacks are accompanied by another security incident, according to Kaspersky Lab.

    Written by Tim Greene17 Sept. 15 23:32
  • DARPA: Current DDoS protection isn’t cutting it

    The DARPA program, called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) looks to :
    • thwart DDoS attacks by dispersing cyber assets (physically and/or logically) to complicate adversarial targeting
    • disguise the characteristics and behaviors of those assets to confuse or deceive the adversary
    • blunt the effects of attacks that succeed in penetrating other defensive measures by using adaptive mitigation techniques on endpoints such as mission‐critical servers.

    Written by Michael Cooney26 Aug. 15 00:13
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