It’s not your imagination: DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks are ramping up. Researchers at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis, based at the San Diego…
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OPLIN 4cast #515: IoT security
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This is supposed to be the year the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes the big new thing in our lives. But over the last few…
OPLIN 4cast #481: DDoS is still growing
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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming an ever bigger problem on the Internet. DDoS attacks send so much traffic to a web server…
OPLIN 4cast #421: Inside the Dark Side
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Three months ago we posted a 4cast about the availability of cheap Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet, mentioning as well that…
OPLIN 4cast #408: Cheap attacks
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At its latest meeting, the OPLIN Board discussed making a substantial financial commitment to protecting OPLIN participants from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS…
Late in the afternoon on Black Friday, the oplin.org website was hit by an apparent Denial of Service (DoS) attack. DoS and DDoS (Distributed Denial of…