Netregistry, an Australian cloud-based web hosting service provider, got a bang on its vast network presently. Zeus Dynamic, one of the key servers of Netregistry, stayed non-functional for a restricted period as the bang was said to be a DDOS (distributed … Continue reading
A Web Hacking Incident Database semiannual report was released by information security and compliance solutions provider Trustwave (www.trustwave.com) this week. It was learnt from the report that there has been an upsurge in DDoS attacks and it also depicts “a … Continue reading
ControlCircle, a prominent name when it comes to provision of managed services and datacenter, today has unveiled its latest product which is a brisk launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) for its clients worldwide which include SME’s and global companies.
In the early morning of Friday, February 19th, 2011, Paypal suffered from a brief outage causing all transactions to be halted and their website to go down. According to the Paypal Developer’s Network, the issue began exactly at 12:11am PST … Continue reading
The recent report by The Register declares that WordPress (www.wordpress.org), the biggest open-source blogging service is attacked by DDoS on 3rd, March 2011.
Defined as a distributed denial of service attack, a DDoS attack is a program that sends an infinite number of requests to a server overloading it and shutting the equipment down. The goal of this attack is to make a … Continue reading
Security becomes more of a challenge everyday for website owners and administrators. If it isn’t someone trying to deface your homepage and enrage your audience, it is another looking to commit more heinous acts such as stealing sensitive information or … Continue reading