Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service DDoS attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industr...

Hybrid DDoS Protection is Like a Faulty Airbag

We know that some businesses are the target of constant DDoS attacks, while others face attacks less frequently. If your company falls on the side of less-frequent attacks or having never been attacked at all, you might be wondering, “does the threat still exist?” And “does it exist to the level ...

Egyptian DDoS Campaign Observations

Between March 19 and March 25, 2019, there was a very large amount of DDoS traffic sourced from a specific Egyptian Autonomous System ASN directed at Akamai Prolexic customers. It's worth noting this is an ASN we rarely see in our pre-attack, or top source IPs during active attacks. When it showe...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Effective Security

When you’re selecting an endpoint security platform for your small business, you want it to work — and work well. However, less than one third of organizations believe that traditional AV has the power to stop the attacks that they are seeing.1 With fileless malware attacks and ransomware on the...

Tech support scams persist with increasingly crafty techniques

Note: Our Tech support scams FAQ page has the latest info on this type of threat, including scammer tactics, fake error messages, and the latest scammer hotlines. You can also read our latest blog, New tech support scam launches communication or phone call app. Millions of users continue to...

Barracuda LB / SVF / WAF / WEF Cross Site Scripting

Title: ====== Barracuda LB, SVF, WAF & WEF - Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2013-07-18 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=727 Note: The issue was part of the official Barracuda Networks Bug Bounty Program. VL-ID: ===== 727 Common Vulnerability Scoring...

Barracuda EMail Security 2.0.2 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== Barracuda EMail Security 2.0.2 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=621 http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=563 Barracuda Networks Security ID: BNSEC-304 Release Dat...