Global Secure Systems - Gbps

Vernier Networks to Address Industry Standards for Network Access Control at Interop New York

Vernier Networks to Address Industry Standards for Network Access Control at Interop New York Rod Murchison, vice president of marketing for Vernier Networks, will present the overview of TNC and discuss network access control standards and endpoint integrity.Company to also exhibit award-winning EdgeWall family of Network Access Control Appliances.The TCG-TNC event will be held on Sept. 20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in room 2D08 at 11:30 am and 2:15 pm. A third session will be held...... [more]

Last month's root-server attack revisited

Last month's root-server attack revisited Last month's attack on at least six of the net's root servers was formidable, but thanks to the implementation of a technology designed to protect the infrastructure, only two were affected, according to a factsheet issued today by ICANN.The DDoS attack flooded the servers with a stunning amount of data, as much as 1 Gbps at points, according to the oversight group. But damage was relatively contained thanks to new load-balancing technology called Anyca...... [more]

Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year

Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. IP networks were bombarded by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks – attempts to make networks unreachable by flooding them with traffic – as intense as 40Gbps, a survey of 70 IP network operators worldwide has claimed. The report by Arbor Networks says that the largest sustained attacks in the last two...... [more]

Inside Korea's Cyber Attack

Inside Korea's Cyber Attack Details are emerging from the massive cyber attack that hit South Korea and the U.S. earlier this month -- showing security researchers what went right in stemming the tide. Initially, the South Korea government blamed North Korea for the attack, though no solid evidence has yet been put forth to support that claim. In the meantime, researchers are learning precisely how large the attack had been and how it had been achieved. As it turns out, South Korea, which is...... [more]

DNS Made Easy rallies after punishing DDoS attack

DNS Made Easy rallies after punishing DDoS attack DNS Made Easy has restored services following a vicious denial of service that peaked at 50Gbps on Saturday. The identity of the perpetrators and their motives remain unclear. One possible scenario is that hackers with a grudge against the site hired a botnet to swamp DNS Made Easy with useless traffic. A blow-by-blow account of the attack can be found via DNS Made Easy's Twitter feed.The firm said it experienced 1.5 hours of actual downtime dur...... [more]

Five ways to defend against a DDoS attack

Five ways to defend against a DDoS attack The economics of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack tend to work in favour of the aggressor and not those attempting to protect online assets. Most DDoS attacks, which most commonly involve a group of attackers flooding a web site with excessive amounts of requests in an effort to prevent it providing service, tend to be small-scale and short-lived. But in rare cases such attacks have brought server clusters - and sometimes entire companies...... [more]

Mitigating DDoS attacks is not an easy task

Mitigating DDoS attacks is not an easy task According to statistics released by the Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) project DDoS attacks have become so popular that they are currently leading charts such as the top Web Application Risks and top Attack Methods, with downtime being the top Attack Outcome. LiveJournal has been the latest blogging platform targeted by multiple DDoS attacks. LiveJournal have been targeted a number of times in the past with DDoS attacks, mostly due to conflicting...... [more]