"The thing I'd like everybody to realize is that there's a commonality among all of these attacks," Mosher says. " The objective of a DDoS attack is always the same - resource exhaustion." Mitigating ...

The website and network outages and slow traffic speeds caused by DDoS attacks can hurt conversions, increase drop-off rates, and degrade your customer experience. Research shows that 25% of users ...

To stop the DDoS mayhem, companies continue to invest heavily in deploying the most advanced hybrid mitigation solutions; however, attackers still manage to bypass them and create business disruptions ...

DDoS understandably makes for a lot of headlines and is the source of genuine concern on the modern Internet. For example, the recent memcached attacks were remarkable for the volume of traffic ...

As Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks grow in both frequency and sophistication, organizations are being forced to re-evaluate their defensive strategies. Gone are the days when a standalone ...

Attackers are experimenting with a new method of avoiding some DDoS mitigation solutions by employing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol to mask the source port of network packets sent during ...