Tag Archives: DDoS Attacks
Incapsula: WordPress Default Setting Opens up Sites to DDoS Exploit
Popular content management system WordPress is harboring a default setting that is making is susceptible to compromise, according to recent research. Gur Shatz, CEO of IT security vendor Incapsula, wrote in a blog post that a recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack mitigated by his firm exposed this vulnerability. “These sites were not compromised, taken over, or rooted. Instead, … Read more
Small, but Mighty: Three-Quarters of DDoS Attacks Less Than 100 Mbps
More than a third of companies endured a disruptive attack last year, according to a new survey [pdf]. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed across industries dealt with at least one Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident, with attacks on the retail sector seeing the largest year-to-year increase (16 percent to 39 percent), making for a 144 percent bump. Financial services … Read more
Flooded: DDoS Bandwidth Increased 700 Percent During Q1 2013
The DDoS tidal wave continues to grow. The average Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack bandwidth totaled 48.25 Gbps in the first quarter of 2013, a 718% increase over last quarter, and the average packet-per-second rate reached 32.4 million, according to a new report by DDoS defense provider Prolexic. Prolexic culled data from their Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert), … Read more
Posted in Security Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged DDoS, DDoS Attacks, distributed denial-of-service attacks
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Reddit: “It was a Legit, Malicious DDoS Aimed at Taking us Down”
The popular link sharing site Reddit has been enduring a large Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack since earlier this morning, according to a statement made via Twitter. As the day moves on, the site appears to have survived the attack, but according to Reddit’s Twitter status alert, while they have “mitigated a decent portion of the DDoS,” certain site functionality is … Read more
Anonymous’ DDoS Attack Against Israel Leverages Botnet Network
Botnets were responsible for the recent cyber attack aimed at Israel, according to a review of the incident from Trend Micro. On April 7, the hacktivist group Anonymous reportedly began a targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign against various Israeli websites ihttp://www.securitybistro.com/blog/wp-admin/post.php?post=6834&action=editn retaliation for the country’s policies towards Hamas and subsequent attacks on the Gaza Strip. Despite apparent Israeli … Read more
New SEC Filings Show Impact Of DDoS Campaign On Banks
Normally tight-lipped about alleged cyber threats, new SEC filings by some of the nation’s largest banks show how recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have made an impact. JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Capital One and Goldman Sachs, revealed that they were, in fact, subject to repeated DDoS attacks during the course of 2012. In 2011, the SEC … Read more
Recent Bank DDoS Attacks Reach New Downtime Levels
The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that have been hammering the commercial banking sector since last Fall have reached a new level of efficiency nearly doubling the amount of collective downtime, according to a new report issued by NBC News. The largest 15 banks were knocked offline for a total of 249 hours during a recent six-week period that … Read more
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Tagged banks, cyber fighters, DDoS, DDoS Attacks, hacktivists, Keystone Systems
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Mt. Gox: Bitcoin Exchange Under DDoS Attack
Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, is fending off a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, according to a Facebook post. The digital currency exchange, which is based in Tokyo, said that the ongoing DDoS attack has caused trading lags, generated error messages for users and even shut down the site for a period of time, … Read more
IBM: Web Application Vulnerabilities Threaten The Enterprise
Web application vulnerabilities remained one of enterprises most pressing issues, rising 14% in 2012 over 2011 end of year numbers, according to a recent report. These vulnerabilities were exploited by attackers who, more often then not, injected malicious scripts and executables onto legitimate websites, targeting client side vulnerabilities in the browser core and in plugins such as those in Internet … Read more
Posted in Application Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Mobile Security, Network Security, Security Management, Security Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged DDoS, DDoS Attacks, IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend and Risk Report, malware, security information and event managemetn (SIEM), spam
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US-Cert Issues DNS Amplification DDoS Alert
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a routine part of the security threat landscape, striking banks, online retails sites and other interconnected targets. In addition to the well-publicized ongoing hacktivist DDoS campaign against global financial institutions (which hit, among others, American Express last week), attacks have been growing in size and frequency. A spam war last week gave … Read more
Posted in Network Security, Security Threats, Uncategorized
Tagged Amplification attack, DDoS, DDoS Attacks, DNS infrastructure, US-CERT
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