A DDOS or distributed denial of service attack is a type of cyber-attack that renders a websiteoffline or unavailable by overwhelming it with fake traffic from multiple sources. According to Atlas threat report, more than 2,000 DDOS attacks are carried out daily. A lot of websitesare targeted by these attacks and if you have a … Read more →
What are Botnets? At their base level, botnets are essentially a series of net-connected programs designed to link up different computers, the aim being to perform certain tasks. In themselves, bots are not malicious. However, in the last few months they have been used more and more by hackers as part of their assault techniques. … Read more →
Hosting company Real Host in the Latvian capital Riga had its Internet connection shut down by TeliaSonera between the night of 31 July and 1 August. The connection was shut down after it emerged that Real Host was base for the infamous botnet Zeus, which presumed to have control over 3.6 million zombie PCs. The … Read more →