FortGuard's Blog

Aug 25, 2011 | 08:36 PM

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
A working proof-of-concept christened the "Apache Killer" released this week uses an as-yet unpatched flaw in the server software that pounds Apache servers with a DDoS attack -- and all it would take is one machine to bring the server to its knees.
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Security | 15 Aug 2011 :  The Hong Kong stock exchange has been forced to resort to using e-mails and newspaper adverts in order to communicate with investors after two days of sustained DDoS att

Cyber criminals are finding new ways to throttle networks and launch denial of service attacks with a Distributed Denial of Service [DDoS] tool now circulating on the criminal underground, researchers