DDoS attacks dominate the news nowadays. Large companies are frequently harassed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with great damage. Prolexic, a company that offers security services ...

Amichai Schulman, chief technology officer at Imperva, said, "The tool was originally developed as an open-source network stress-testing tool. It was recently tweaked to include a central ...

Writing in the Imperva Data Security Blog, Rob Rachwald notes that by 22 April, downloads in 2012 surpassed the total for 2011 – that’s “142 downloads per hour,” he notes. “The US, France and Brazil ...

A system for turning trackerless BitTorrents into DDoS tools has been described at a hacker convention, potentially using peer swarms for inadvertent botnet-style cyberattacks. Hacker "Astro" revealed ...

The Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) ‘do it yourself’ DDoS tool recently surpassed its download numbers for the whole of 2011 at a rate of nearly 3,500 per day, security firm Imperva has reported. By 22 ...

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A security vendor has turned the tables on malicious hackers by releasing details of a vulnerability in a popular toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate ...

A Turkish hacking crew is running a DDoS-for-Points platform where participants can earn points if they carry out DDoS attacks against a list of predetermined targets, points they can exchange later ...

Recent versions of Orbit Downloader, a popular Windows program for downloading embedded media content and other types of files from websites, turns computers into bots and uses them to launch ...

On average, a DDoS attack lasts 68 minutes, costing vulnerable organizations about $6,000 per minute, adding up to over ...