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) ...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Corero Network Security, the specialists in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection solutions, released new threat research today offering an ...
I have a VM in EC2 that has been running dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 successfully for over a year now, but things have recently broken on the IPv6 side. My VPC has a /20 block in RFC1918 space, and a /64 ...
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 ...
The procedure that takes place between two TCP/IP nodes to establish a connection. Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – 16 April 2025- The newly released NETSCOUT Threat Intelligence Report for July to December 2024 reveals a complex and contrasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
You may have heard horror stories about how easy it is for evil system crackers to probe potential victims' systems for vulnerabilities using software tools readily available on the Internet. The bad ...
Recently I ran into the Internet connection problem from hell. My 6Mbps down/512Kbps AT&T DSL connection started running at speeds I hadn’t seen since my dial-up modem days. When you do what I do for ...