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Fortinet Updates DDoS Attack Mitigation Solution for New Threats

Fortinet has expanded its family of Distributed Denial of Service products with four new appliances to help detect and mitigate large threats designed to wield large numbers of infected systems to flood servers with requests and crowd out legitimate traffic. Continue reading

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Black Lotus Identifies DDoS Attack Trends in New Report

The Distributed Denial of Service landscape is significantly changing, according to the January threat report (PDF) from DDoS mitigation provider Black Lotus. Some of the key trends reported include: “Distributed reflection Denial of Service” (or DrDoS) enabling massive attacks exceeding 100 gigabits per second; attacks targeting infrastructure rather than applications directly; and DDoS attacks from mobile devices (or mDDoS) now reaching significant levels. Continue reading

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Defense.Net Launches DDoS Mitigation Solution for Massive Attacks

As large-scale Distributed Denial of Service attacks continue to leverage armies of compromised devices to overwhelm websites and business operations, Defense.Net has launched an advanced mitigation service known as DDoS Frontline. Continue reading

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Mobile Apps Being Used in DDoS Attacks: Prolexic Report

Downloadable mobile apps are being used in Distributed Denial of Service attacks against enterprises, according to the latest quarterly report from DDoS protection provider Prolexic Technologies. Continue reading

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Arbor Networks Reports Alarming Increases in DDoS Attack Size in 2013

October 17, 2013 — Distributed denial-of-service (or DDoS) attacks have accelerated rapidly over the course of 2013, with the number of attacks monitored at over 20Gb/sec so far already growing by more than 350 percent over last year’s total numbers. Keep on reading: Arbor Networks Reports Alarming Increases in DDoS Attack Size in 2013 Continue reading

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