The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend.
CNN.com was knocked offline for three hours shortly after Chinese hackers claimed to have called off a planned denial of service attack against the US publisher.
Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.
After analysing traffic from 68 ISPs around the globe, a security researcher claims that as much as five percent of all Internet traffic is from DDoS-attacks.
The University of Adelaide has adopted Lancope's Stealthwatch network behaviour analysis tool to identify anomalies such as network intrusions and interface congestion.
Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.
During the holiday season, snow isn't the only thing analysts shovel. With that in mind, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon Oltsik, takes a look forward on networking technology and related industry trends in 2008.
IT watcher Jon Oltsik says businesses are changing how they think about information security -- and none too soon.
As network-centric security delivers better protection and lower costs, CIOs will abandon their current best-of-breed security strategy and seek out partners who can deliver the whole enchilada.
Another virus, another epidemic. What will it take for the public to patch?
Symantec has unveiled a package of network-security management tools designed to make it easier and faster for corporate administrators to protect networks from threats.
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