DDoS News
Did you Know?
- DDoS attacks are on the rise, used to target and shut down web services worldwide.
- In early 2009, independent sources along with RioRey’s own rCare proprietary data pool reported that between 1,700 and 3,000 DDoS attacks occurred daily.
- DDoS attacks last, on average, between 3 and 6 hours. [Source: RioRey rCare proprietary data pool]
- DDoS attacks have been measured that last for 3 days or more. [Source: RioRey rCare proprietary data pool]
- During a single DDoS attack, the source IPs can change as well as the attack methods, making DDoS attack bots harder to detect and block.
- Traditional security measures, including firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS), are not designed to be effective on their own against DDoS flood attacks.
- Magnitude of attacks: In a spoofed IP attack, the attack can cover 4 billion IP addresses. In an unspoofed attack, it is not uncommon to see 20K to 30K IP addresses.
No public web site is truly safe from DDoS attacks. Whether it's political, competetive, malicious, blackmail or just a disgruntled ex-employee any organization concerned about the availability of their public web site needs to invest in a RioRey solution.
On this page we will update news often with articles and observations on the threat of DDoS attacks internationally.
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03/10/2010
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Fighting Bots is Everybody's Business |
Every day brings another stunning story about cybercriminals using botnets to hijack and control computers in order to steal data and pull off other online crimes. Last week, Spanish authorities announced they had arrested three men allegedly involved wit
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03/09/2010
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Ubisoft undone by anti-DRM DDoS storm |
After negative press over a new-age DRM scheme applied to all of its games, Ubisoft came under a DDoS-protest attack this past weekend where hackers brought down Ubisoft DRM servers, rendering many legitimately-purchased copies of Ubisoft games unplayable
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03/08/2010
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Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets |
It is estimated that in the past year the number of attacks on US government agencies rose to 1.6 billion per month. Systems in the EU are even more vulnerable.
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03/05/2010
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Police arrest Mariposa botnet masters, 12M+ hosts compromised |
According to a statement published by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, the botnet masters behind a 12M+ infected hosts botnet dubbed Mariposa, were arrested in a cooperative effort between law enforcement, security vendors and the academic community.
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03/04/2010
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Is Your PC Part of a Botnet? |
Being part of a botnet is no fun. Your computer becomes your worst enemy, watching everything you do, collecting all of your secrets, and then delivering all that data to the bot-herder; the person who originated the network. But what does it really mean
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03/03/2010
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Automated Response Needed for Cyber Attack, Napolitano Will Say |
U.S. government and businesses should focus on developing new devices for authenticating computer users and automate responses to cyber attacks to bolster Internet security, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will say in a speech today.
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03/02/2010
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Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet |
The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
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03/01/2010
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Coming to Grips With the Growing Cyber Threat |
It is almost impossible to understand the dangers that face our military, government, business and personal computer networks without being a high-level cyber security expert.
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02/26/2010
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Cyber Problems Will Remain Says Northrop Grumman's Bob Brammer |
Cyber Problems Will Remain Says Northrop Grumman's Bob Brammer
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02/25/2010
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Former Intelligence Chief: U.S. Would Lose Cyberwar |
The risk of a catastrophic cyberattack is approaching the gravity of the nuclear risk, according to the Bush administration's top spy.
"The cyber risk has become so important that, in my view, it rivals nuclear weapons in terms of seriousness," Michael
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