This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. Companies like Norse and Akamai track the source IP of Internet attack traffic and compile lists ...
FireHost, a provider of secure cloud hosting, uses an IP reputation filter to help protect its customers. Reputation filters use a blacklist of known 'bad' IP addresses belonging to malevolent ...
Botnet armies have got bigger, more active and more heavily armed than ever before. In the first quarter of 2016, attacks launched by bots reached a record high of 311 million – a 300% increase ...
Learn what a DDoS attack is, how it works, and how cybersecurity tools like botnets detection, rate limiting, and cloud ...
More than 87% of active domain names are found to share their IP addresses (i.e. their web servers) with one or more additional domains, and more than two third of active domain names share their ...
Introduction IP spoofing is one of the strategies that can be employed in the culmination of diverse types of cyber attacks. The knowledge of what IP spoofing means, how it is done, and how to avoid ...
The EU unveiled its very own DNS resolver, promising to be more privacy-compliant and cyber resilient The DNS4EU comes as an alternative to major US-based services and includes built-in filters to ...
Dan York presents a conundrum: Once VOIP has reached critical mass in the enterprise, how will you filter out SPIT (spam over IP telephony) while allowing legitimate traffic such as notifications to ...