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Prolexic Mitigates Layer 7 DDoS Attack
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that it mitigated an application layer (Layer 7) attack on behalf of VirtualRoad.org (http://www.virtualroad.org). This web hosting company based in Scandinavia provides a...

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Anonymous Attacks UK Sites in Response to Extraditions
Monday, April 9th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Three top government websites belonging to the British government recently faced downtime after being attacked by notorious hacking group Anonymous over the weekend. Included among them were sites for the office of British Prime Minister David...

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Prolexic Minimizes Impact of DDoS
Monday, April 2nd, 2012THN News  
PRESS RELEASE (The Hosting News) – Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services announced that during the first quarter of 2012, more than six of Prolexic’s top global financial services clients received significant Distributed Denial of Service...

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Symantec: DoS Tool Backfires on Anonymous Supporters
Monday, March 5th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) –  Supporters of hacking group Anonymous may have found the tables turned on themselves following a report from Symantec on Friday. In it, the security company detailed how those participating in DDoS attacks in support of the...

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Prolexic Issues Advisory for HOIC
Friday, February 24th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today released a threat advisory for the High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC), an increasingly popular attack tool that can target up to 256 web...

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DDoS Report Highlights Need for Education
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012THN News  
PRESS RELEASE (The Hosting News) – Commenting on the just-released 7th annual Infrastructure Security Report from Arbor Networks, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that the need for education on the latest security defences has never been stronger. According to...

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Prolexic Launches “Protected by Prolexic”
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012THN News  
PRESS RELEASE (The Hosting News) – Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced that it has launched a new customer program called “Protected by Prolexic.” Prolexic will offer incentives to new and existing customers who...

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Prolexic Enhances Portal for More DDoS Insight
Friday, January 20th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced it has launched an enhanced Prolexic Portal, an online resource that provides customers with greater visibility and insight into Prolexic’s monitoring and...

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Server Down: DDoS Hits Netregistry
Monday, September 26th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Australian cloud hosting provider Netregistry recently faced technical issues related to an attack on its network. The matter was a result of a DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service) and caused downtime for Zeus Dynamic, one of Netregistry’s servers. Commenting...

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What Is a DDoS Attack?
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the major security threats an Internet-connected server might encounter is a DDoS attack. It is a violent, often faceless, intrusion on a server that can leave all of its websites paralyzed. DoS stands for denial of service, and...

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