Last August, academic researchers discovered a potent new method for knocking sites offline: a fleet of misconfigured servers more than 100,000 strong that can amplify floods of junk data to ...

Cybercriminals appear to have finally figured out a way to launch highly effective distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using TCP amplification — something most attackers have typically ...

Conducting “fire drills” is an important part of my job. I conduct various drills throughout the year to test our company’s ability to react to different types of security-related events. I picked ...

In a coffee-shop scenario, attackers can hijack “secure” VPN sessions of those working remotely, injecting data into their TCP streams. A vulnerability in most Linux distros has been uncovered that ...

The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks. The last 30 days has seen a renewed increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

Cloudflare processes 60 million HTTP requests per second, of which about 70% are TCP connections and about 30% are UDP/QUIC connections. Of these, only about 80% of data exchanges are actually ...