DDoS

d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on August 6th, 2009

By now we’ve all heard that Twitter was offline for a couple of hours today, and that FaceBook was running slowly. The reports are that they both were victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. While this was limited to sites that, admittedly, have little measurable business value, what if it was a [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on July 8th, 2009

Reports are coming out this morning of distributed denial of service attacks coming from North Korea and targeting South Korean government and business web sites. I heard one report which stated that US government sites are also being targeted. I’ve never really thought USA Today was a bastion of InfoSec news, but they have a [...]

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