DDoS Chronicles

In 2012, Dropbox, the popular file hosting service, was the victim of a largescale cyber-attack during which attackers obtained large volumes of email and password data. It has been recently discovered that the data stolen in the 2012 breach has been leaked and that over 68 million accounts have been comprised.

September 22, 2016 03:00 PM

In today’s hyper-connected world, nearly all businesses, regardless of size orindustry, have some element of their operations based online. From the largestonline retailers and financial service companies to gaming and social mediabrands, organizations are transforming how they conduct business and havebecome increasingly dependent on network-based services.

May 31, 2016 03:00 PM

Businesses of all sizes, across all verticals, generate significant sales online, increasing their risk and exposure from outages and breaches. Unfortunately, malicious actors understand this and target online businesses with this in mind.

May 19, 2016 03:00 PM

You are catching up on some Web surfing using your favorite mobile device, when all of a sudden everything freezes and you receive a message telling you...

April 26, 2016 03:00 PM

One of the primary capabilities to consider when evaluating DDoS cyber-attack mitigation vendors is time to mitigate. Specifically, how quickly can effective protection be enabled once a DDoS attack is detected? The immediacy of DDoS mitigation is important for one very obvious reason: downtime costs companies money and many modern attacks create immediate downtime when they hit. The faster a DDoS attack can be mitigated, the faster the site is back up and the less financial impact to the company.

January 5, 2016 02:00 PM

A definitive trend in the cyber-security market is the movement towards “hybrid” DDoS protection solutions. In Radware’s 2014-2015 Global Network & Application Security Report, we can see that many information security practitioners have either already implemented hybrid technologies (36% of survey respondents), or plan to by the end of 2015 (48%).

January 5, 2016 02:00 PM