3rd of June 2013 02:50 GMT
Prolexic, a company that specializes in protecting organizations against distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, has seen a lot of cyberattacks in its 10-year history. However, an attack that hit a real-time financial exchange platform on May 27, 2013, is the biggest the DDOS protection provider has ever seen. ...
22nd of March 2013 17:21 GMT
During the last RSA Conference, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), performance and availability monitoring software provider AccelOps conducted a study to find out what was stopping organizations from migrating their critical applications and data to the cloud. It turns out that of the 176 IT security...
30th of November 2012 12:11 GMT
People up to no good on the internet are always looking for new ways of carrying out their "no goodness." To stay one step ahead or at least not that far behind, those looking to stop them need to think like them, which is why proof of concept attacks are important. Researchers have now devised a method of carrying...
18th of September 2012 09:16 GMT
On September 15, CloudFlare experienced an outage caused by issues with an upstream bandwidth provider and by a massive 65 Gbps distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that most likely relied on DNS reflection to amplify its strength. According to the company’s CEO Matthew Prince, it’s not easy for ...
30th of August 2012 07:20 GMT
Fujitsu has revealed the existence of Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Big Data Working Group, an entity whose main role is to find solutions for the security challenges posed these days by big data. The group will be chaired by Sreeranga Rajan – director of software systems innovation at Fujitsu Laboratories o...