Tag Archives: infrastructure

Cloud Giants Likely to Beef Up Bandwidth to Fight IoT Botnets

Amazon and IBM appear to be the only major cloud infrastructure providers to have been affected by the DDoS attack of potentially unprecedented scale on DNS servers operated by Manchester, New Hampshire-based Dyn last week. Continue reading

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Dyn: DDoS Attack Involved "10s of Millions of IP Addresses"

On Friday, Dyn was hit by a massive DDoS attack that disrupted service across many websites, including that of Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and The New York Times. Dyn is releasing details about what happened. Continue reading

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Managing the Cloud User, Part 3: What Happens When Companies Forget About User Environments

Managing user environments doesn’t only mean creating good experiences and speedy performance. Continue reading

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Chinese Firm Says Its Cameras Were Used to Take Down Internet

A Chinese security camera maker said its products were used to launch a cyber-attack that severed internet access for millions of users. Continue reading

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Is Today’s DDoS Attack Part of a Troubling Trend?

Regardless of whether you work in the hosting industry, you would have likely encountered an outage today on a website that you may visit frequently, due to a DDoS attack targeting Dyn. Continue reading

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