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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
Comcast hit by major outage over the weekend
Comcast was hit by a major outage on Sunday that apparently affected subscribers from Boston to Washington, D.C. Depending on location, the outage lasted several hours, though it is understood from
New DNS Trojans attempt to hijack entire LAN
A new rash of Trojans has been detected that attempts to hijack entire local area networks (LAN) by masquerading as a DHCP server on the network. This allows the malware to set itself up as the
Survey: One in four DNS servers still vulnerable to Kaminsky hack
A survey by Infoblox shows that a staggering 10 percent of DNS servers, or one in ten, are still vulnerable to the cache-poisoning hack discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. Another 1.3
DNS attacks are draining corporate IT coffers
Attacks on companies' Domain Name System (DNS) servers are causing CIOs to spend a considerable amount of time and money to deploy complex security measures to keep their sites protected from
Simplifying IP management
IP address management (IPAM) can be defined broadly as encompassing three major interrelated functions: IP address inventory, dynamic IP address services management, and IP names services
Florida nabs botnet operator
Florida law enforcement has nabbed a botnet operator who targeted Akamai, a Web cache provider, hitting the company's DNS servers with a forceful denial of service attack. The incident knocked
DNS vulnerabilities pose security concerns
Today's DNS servers are at risk, according to U.K. researchers, due to software flaws creating vulnerabilities that can crash the Internet support system or provide hackers access to connected
