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The true cost of Egypt's Internet shutdown
With an abruptness reminiscent of its decision to sever its connection with the world, Egypt restored Internet access on Wednesday amidst continuing unrest directed against beleaguered President
Largest DDoS attack in 2010 crossed 100Gbps barrier
The ferocity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has been increasing over the years, with one attack finally breaking 100Gbps in 2010. This finding comes from Arbor Networks in its most
Hackers use Twitter to control botnets
Popular social networking site Twitter is being used to control botnets, according to Jose Nazario, who is a Senior Security Researcher from Arbor Networks. Botnets are computers infected with
IBM: Conficker affects 4 percent of PCs
IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division did a scan of some 2 million computers in the last 24 hours and came up with a startling figure: The Conficker worm was spotted on some 4 percent of the
Giant scale DDoS tops 40 Gbps
Arbor Networks has released the fourth edition of its Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report , which summarizes the responses of 70 lead security engineers worldwide. The report indicates that the
First comprehensive survey of IPv6 reveals negligible usage
In the most comprehensive study of actual IPv6 usage to date, Arbor Networks worked with the University of Michigan and close to 100 Internet providers in order to measure actual inter-domain IPv6
