We've been seeing a rise of ever bigger Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for years now. But, now a new attack method, Memcrashed, can blast your site with over a terabyte of traffic. Good ...

I've been necessarily brief explaining both Memcached and LiveJournal's backend, so please e-mail me at [email protected] for any more information. Also, check out the ...

memcached servers are an irresistibly attractive means for firing packed cannons at any target without needing a botnet infrastructure, warns Tod Beardsley, research director at Rapid7. The warning ...

Hackers have found a way to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks by an unprecedented 51,000 times their original strength in a development that whitehats say could lead to new record-setting ...

Code repository GitHub was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which peaked at 1.35Tbps via 126.9 million packets per second. According to a statement the incident occurred on ...