Search Results for: Distributed denial-of-service

Five Best Practices for Mitigating DDoS Attacks

Five Best Practices for Mitigating DDoS Attacks

Research Desk Feb 22, 2021

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks remain one of the most effective methods used by cybercriminals to cause significant financial, operational, and reputational damage to businesses worldwid...

Internet Archive Faces DDoS Attack Leading to Two Offline Services

Internet Archive Faces DDoS Attack Leading to Two Offline Services

Insights Desk Oct 11, 2024

Highlights: Users of Internet Archive discovered that the nonprofit organization’s website was breached recently, when a hacker gained access and announced the launch of a cyberattack. Brews...

Menace of Ping Flood Attacks: A Growing Network Peril

Menace of Ping Flood Attacks: A Growing Network Peril

Insights Desk Apr 15, 2024

Highlights: Typically, ICMP echo-request and echo-reply messages are employed to ping a network device, assessing its health and connectivity, as well as the connection between the sender and the...

Decoding Smurf Attacks: The Concept, Mechanics, Impact, and Mitigations

Decoding Smurf Attacks: The Concept, Mechanics, Impact, and Mitigations

Insights Desk Mar 12, 2024

Highlights: In a rudimentary smurf attack, the assailant inundates the target network with an incessant stream of ICMP request packets. In the case of sophisticated smurf DDoS attacks, company...

Akamai Unveiled New Additions to Its Product, App API Protector

Akamai Unveiled New Additions to Its Product, App API Protector

Insights Desk Mar 05, 2024

Highlights: The latest enhancements incorporate advanced defenses to counter sophisticated application layer distributed denial-of-service attacks. App and API Protector now includes Browser I...

F5 Introduces New Features for API Security AI

F5 Introduces New Features for API Security AI

Insights Desk Feb 08, 2024

Highlights: The company offers a range of fundamental security, fraud detection, and networking tools within a product suite named Distributed Cloud Services. The cybersecurity features powere...

Cequence Security Collaborates with Vercara to Boost API Security

Cequence Security Collaborates with Vercara to Boost API Security

Insights Desk Jan 25, 2024

Highlights: The collaboration aims to strengthen cybersecurity by combining Vercara’s network and application protections with Cequence Security’s Unified API Protection platform. Vercara�...

Cloudflare’s Latest DDoS Report Reveals Record-breaking Attack

Cloudflare’s Latest DDoS Report Reveals Record-breaking Attack

Insights Desk Oct 27, 2023

Highlights: In the third quarter, hackers particularly favored targeting casino and gambling enterprises out of all the industries they targeted. For the second straight quarter, Asia’s cryp...

AWS Unveils ‘MadPot’ Tools for Countering Cyberattacks

AWS Unveils ‘MadPot’ Tools for Countering Cyberattacks

Insights Desk Sep 29, 2023

Highlights: The Director of the Office of the CISO at AWS, Mark Ryland, claims that MadPot has developed into a sophisticated system of monitoring sensors and automated response capabilities. ...

API Security Best Practices: Safeguarding Your Organization’s Digital Assets

API Security Best Practices: Safeguarding Your Organization’s Digital Assets

Insights Desk Aug 14, 2023

Highlights: Encrypting your data is one of the most important steps you can take to ensure API security. REST is an architectural style, SOAP is a protocol, and GraphQL is a query language, as...

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