ZDNet

DDoS: Google has a new tool to defend against attacks launched by botnets

Google Could have unveiled a public preview of Cloud Armor's Adaptive Protection -- a machine learning-powered method of detecting and protecting enterprise applications and services from Layer 7 DDoS ...
The Next Web

How DDoS attacks became the frontline tool of cyber-war

The concept of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks finally entered the mainstream public consciousness this month after assaults on the websites of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal made front page ...
techtimes

AI-based Tool Can Deter DDoS Attacks

Researchers at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris (INFRES) have created a new computational method that could detect Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more efficiently and ...

Why DDoS Resilience Requires A Strong Incident Response Strategy

On average, a DDoS attack lasts 68 minutes, costing vulnerable organizations about $6,000 per minute, adding up to over ...
Bleeping Computer

The Great Cannon DDoS Tool Used Against Hong Kong Protestors’ Forum

The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was deployed again to launch attacks against the LIHKG social media platform used by Hong Kong protesters to coordinate during this year's ...
ZDNet

DDoS applications becoming democratized, tools of protest

In a presentation at SOURCE Boston, Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks stated that DDoS applications are moving from the domain of trained attackers to tools for the average person to voice a ...
ExtremeTech

Lizard Squad now offering DDoS attack tool for as little as $6 per month

Recipients of new game consoles this holiday season were robbed of their holiday gaming when a group of internet miscreants known as Lizard Squad launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS ...
PC World

China’s ‘Great Cannon’ DDoS tool enforces Internet censorship

China is deploying a tool that can be used to launch huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to enforce censorship. Researchers have dubbed it “the Great Cannon.” The first time the tool was ...
Computerworld

When DDoS attacks become IRCsome

I was chatting with some employees of Tele Danmark Internet during the lunch break at a seminar I was teaching in Denmark last month when one of them asked me what I had heard about Trinity, a new ...
Ars Technica

Slowloris DDoS tool used by Anonymous hacked to include Zeus trojan

The hackers were hacked: a DDoS tool popular with Anonymous denizens was modified to include a trojan that steals banking and webmail credentials. <a href='http ...
Bleeping Computer

A YouTuber is encouraging you to DDoS Russia—how risky is this?

A YouTube influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers is encouraging followers to conduct cyber warfare against Russia. In a plea made this week on his ...