How DDoS attacks have evolved
As with most IT security threats, distributed denial of service attacks have evolved over time.  Simple attacks at the network level designed to exhaust target bandwidth capacity have been complemented with more complex and subtle attacks that can bring down websites but leave the network standing, often without triggering DDoS mitigation.
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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Radware who explain why DDoS is just as much as threat today as it always has been.
The nature of DDoS attacks is shifting, and while some organizations might believe that DDoS is a thing of the past, this is not the case.
more →DoH, or DNS over HTTPS to be precise, has featured in mainstream media in recent weeks. Both Mozilla and Google have confirmed that their Firefox and Chrome browsers will be implementing DoH by default but what exactly is it and why does it have ISP’s worried?
To recap, DNS (or the Domain Name System) is used to translate a human-readable host address such as www.activereach.net to its underlying IP address that your computer can connect to in order to receive content. Â
more →On my way home from visiting a customer last week, I was thinking about a question that he had raised. He asked me “What is the best way to prepare for a DDoS attack?”
A DDoS attack is a special type of Denial of Service attack. Malicious traffic is generated from a multitude of sources and orchestrated from one central point.
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