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Modern DDoS attacks: When Moore’s law meets Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

dezembro 4, 2015 | NSFOCUS

Track:  General Security Author: Dave Martin, Director of Product Marketing, NSFOCUS What would happen if you combined Moore’s law with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and applied them to DDoS attacks?  Unfortunately, modern DDoS attacks seem to embody this idea perfectly as both the frequency and complexity of these attacks have become truly staggering in just a […]

Brains vs. Brawn – Cracking the Seventh Layer

outubro 1, 2015 | NSFOCUS

Author: Rishi Agarwal, Chief Evangelist, NSFOCUS When the news reports on DDoS attacks, it is generally referring to large-scale network attacks that are focused on Layer 3 and 4 of the network stack. However, from a mitigation point of view, network layer attacks are not sophisticated. The ability to mitigate this type of attack always […]

Analysis of WordPress SQL Injection and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

setembro 24, 2015 | NSFOCUS

By: Junli Shen, Network Offensive and Defensive Researcher, NSFOCUS Analysis of Core WordPress SQL Injection Vulnerability As a Threat Response Center (TRC) researcher, I conducted a thorough analysis on the “Core WordPress SQL Injection Vulnerability” (CVE-2015-5623 and CVE-2015-2213). Vulnerability Overview Previously, I read a tweet about the SQL injection vulnerability found in the core function of […]

How DDoS Attacks have Evolved in the Last Two Decades

setembro 14, 2015 | NSFOCUS

By: Zujun Xu, Senior Security Consultant, NSFOCUS The Current State of DDoS attacks It has been 20 years passed since the first DDoS attack. Many variants appeared during this period of time, such as DDRoS, which has the same result as DDoS attacks, to disrupt the availability of the target host and their services. DDoS protection […]

NSFOCUS Listed in Gartner’s Two Magic Quadrants for Web Security Products

setembro 8, 2015 | NSFOCUS

Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory firm, released two authoritative magic quadrants (application security testing (AST) and web application firewalls (WAFs)) regarding web security every year by selecting important vendors with global influence. We are so proud that NSFOCUS WVSS and WAF had both recognized in Gartner’s Two Magic Quadrants. With dramatic increasing services […]

NSFOCUS wowed the audiences @WHD.AU

setembro 8, 2015 | NSFOCUS

Carrying on the continuous success in introducing Anti-DDoS solutions to Australian audiences, NSFOCUS participated again at the 2015 World Hosting Days (WHD) conference in Sydney, Australia last month. Our Singapore-based Bobby Zhou, Regional Director for NSFOCUS gave an insightful presentation regarding how to have a collaborative protection network for the detection and mitigation of flooding […]