Category Archive For "Defend Against DDoS"
Discord was down due to Cloudflare outage affecting parts of the web
Popular chat service Discord experienced issues today due to network problems at Cloudflare and a wider internet issue. The app was inaccessible for its millions of users, and even Discord’s website and status pages were struggling. Discord’s problems could be traced to an outage at Cloudflare, a content delivery network. Cloudflare started experiencing issues at …
IoT regulation is key to halting increase in DDoS attacks
Global communication service providers (CSPs), who are expected to provide customers with continuous, uninterrupted service, are struggling to deal with an increasing number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks involve flooding a network with more traffic than it can handle, which makes the network inaccessible to legitimate users. According to A10 Networks’ …
DDoS Botnets are Back and Poised to Do Damage
DDoS attacks have been among the top cybersecurity threats in recent years, and have the potential to cause wide scale disruption of internet services. The massive attack on DNS provider Dyn in 2016 caused outages to popular websites like Twitter and Netflix and affected millions of users worldwide. Various other enterprises including financial institutions, video …
5 Key Considerations in Choosing a DDoS Mitigation Network
A DDoS mitigation service is more than just the technology or the service guarantees. The quality and resilience of the underlying network is a critical component in your armor, and one which must be carefully evaluated to determine how well it can protect you against sophisticated DDoS attacks. Massive Capacity When it comes to protection …
DDoS Protection Requires Looking Both Ways
Service availability is a key component of the user experience. Customers expect services to be constantly available and fast-responding, and any downtime can result in disappointed users, abandoned shopping carts, and lost customers. Consequently, DDoS attacks are increasing in complexity, size and duration. Radware’s 2018 Global Application and Network Security Report found that over the …
