DDoS – Network Securitas

March 11, 2016

Hackers Target Anti-DDoS Firm Staminus

This post was originally published on this site Staminus Communications Inc., a California-based Internet hosting provider that specializes in protecting customers from massive “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attacks aimed at knocking sites offline, has itself apparently been massively hacked. Staminus’s entire network was down for more than 20 hours until Thursday evening, leaving customers to vent their rage on the company’s Facebook and Twitter pages. In the midst of the outage, someone posted online download links for what appear to be Staminus’s customer credentials, support tickets, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. The e-zine posted online Thursday following an outage […]

September 21, 2016

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS

This post was originally published on this siteOn Tuesday evening, KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of an extremely large and unusual distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to knock the site offline. The attack did not succeed thanks to the hard work of the engineers at Akamai, the company that protects my site from such digital sieges. But according to Akamai, it was nearly double the size of the largest attack they’d seen previously, and was among the biggest assaults the Internet has ever witnessed. The attack began around 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 20, and initial reports put it at approximately 665 Gigabits […]

September 21, 2016

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS

This post was originally published on this siteOn Tuesday evening, KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of an extremely large and unusual distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to knock the site offline. The attack did not succeed thanks to the hard work of the engineers at Akamai, the company that protects my site from such digital sieges. But according to Akamai, it was nearly double the size of the largest attack they’d seen previously, and was among the biggest assaults the Internet has ever witnessed. The attack began around 8 p.m. ET on Sept. 20, and initial reports put it at approximately 665 Gigabits […]

September 25, 2016

The Democratization of Censorship

This post was originally published on this siteJohn Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech. However, events of the past week have convinced me that one of the fastest-growing censorship threats on the Internet today comes not from nation-states, but from super-empowered individuals who have been quietly building extremely powerful cyber weapons with transnational reach. More than 20 years after Gilmore first coined that turn of phrase, his […]