- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 21st, 2016
Around Four in Five DNSSEC Servers Can Be Hijacked for DDoS Attacks
DNSSEC is the best tool to protect against DNS hijacking and DNS cache poisoning but can be hijacked for DDoS attacks
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 10th, 2016
IETF Proposal Details Using Cookies as Anti-DDoS Protection in DNS Protocol
IETF opens RFC 7873 proposal for public debate
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 31st, 2016
DDoS Attacks via TFTP Protocol Become a Reality After Research Goes Public
The first weaponized attack script started circulating days after the researchers published their study
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 17th, 2016
Malware Botnet Can Be Abused to Launch DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks can have an amplification factor of 26.5
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 10th, 2016
600,000 TFTP Servers Can Be Abused for Reflection DDoS Attacks
Attacks have an amplification factor of 60
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 16th, 2016
Akamai Detected Over 400 Reflection DDoS Attacks Leveraging DNSSEC Protocol
DDoS attacks can reach an amplification factor of 8