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Evolving DDoS security toward self-defending networks

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A new era of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has arrived. In 2018 DDoS attacks broke the terabit barrier, and have become even more frequent and sophisticated (or vicious) as they now commonly combine several different attack techniques that vary — both in time and geographically — to maximize impact. Even the giants of…
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WikiLeaks absorbs more DDoS attacks

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Wikileaks appears to have recovered from another punishing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack unleashed against the whistleblower website.
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Vigilante meetup site 4chan falls to DDoS attack

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Image-based bulletin board 4chan, reportedly used as a forum by the hacker group Anonymous, succumbed Tuesday to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to the site's founder, Chris Poole.
DDoS attacks continue to grow in size
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DDoS attacks continue to grow in size

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The average size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have weighed in at 20 percent higher so far this year than they did in 2012, according to statistics released Monday by security firm Arbor Networks.
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Another Twitter DDoS?

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Twitter was knocked offline again on Tuesday, the second prolonged outage affecting the popular microblogging site in less than a week. The company did not immediately know the cause of the latest service interruption, only stating in its Status blog that, "We're back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack." The site was down for about 20 minutes on Tuesday, starting around 3 p.m. EST. Last week's downtime, which lasted a couple of hours, was traced to distributed denial-of-service attacks launched against the Twitter account of a pro-Georgian blogger. Facebook and LiveJournal also were hit but did not sustain any significant downtime. — DK
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Deconstructing DDoS

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This 20/20 webcast looks at the state of the DDoS market, some of the factors that are causing it to expand and some recommendations for companies to defend against these attacks.