Case Study: A Slowdown in Software David Bolton, January 12, 2017 9 min read One of my clients in London operates a taxi firm and uses a proprietary system developed quite a few years ago to...
7-Year-Old ‘Feature’ Makes WordPress an Ad Hoc Botnet Kevin Fogarty, March 12, 2014 6 min read Incapsula's diagram shows how the WP DDOS-enabling 'feature' works Hackers exploiting bloggers' wish to know when...
‘Net Should Brace for More Giant DDoS Attacks Kevin Fogarty, March 12, 2014 5 min read Fourteen vulnerable UDP protocols make massive DDOS attacks possible. A new set of attack toolkits has drastically...
SYN Reflections Turn DDoS Defenses Against You Kevin Fogarty, June 26, 2013 3 min read The average Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack shoves a server offline for 54 minutes and costs...
CloudFlare, Microsoft Azure Explain Outages Mark Hachman, March 4, 2013 6 min read Crashes suck. CloudFlare essentially "dropped off the Internet" for about an hour on March 3, as all its edge...
Data Centers Will Prioritize Blocking DDoS Attacks in 2013 Mark Hachman, January 28, 2013 4 min read Data-center owners and other service providers are prioritizing investments in technology designed to prevent...
Rackspace Suffers Email Outage Mark Hachman, January 9, 2013 2 min read A “large amount of traffic” is the apparent culprit in Rackspace’s most recent email outage. However, the company...
