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E-retailers can avoid the Internet attacks Amazon.com experienced

The world’s largest e-retailer may not be immune to hackers but some smaller e-retailers were able to avoid the disruptions that Amazon.com ran into last week when its domain name system operator, Neustar Inc., was hit with a denial of service attack.

Posted 12/29/2009Zak StamborPost a comment

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Early Analysis Shows Hacker Attacks from Inside U.S.

Internet and law enforcement officials suspect many computers were hijacked to launch denial of service attacks that have disrupted popular e-commerce sites in recent days. Early indications have led officials to believe the attacks have come from inside the United States. Jed Picket, a technician at the CERT Coordination Center, a federally funded research center at Carnegie Mellon University that tracks security breaches on the Internet, says...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Vandalism goes virtual

Hacking is hardly new on the Internet, but the magnitude of last month’s denial of service disruptions reached new proportions. The attacks disabled filters in place to weed out denial of service requests, which occur many times a day at large sites, says Steve Hunt, a director at Giga Information Group, Chicago. “It’s the equivalent of a company preparing for a snowstorm and getting hit by an earthquake.” The attacks shut down several of the...

Posted 12/26/2000Don DavisPost a comment

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CloudShield’s Defender Product Line Provides Brains and Brawn Against Holiday DDoS Attacks

CloudShield protects e-commerce sites during holiday shopping seasons Sunnyvale, Calif., – November 12, 2007 – CloudShield Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of IP security and service control solutions, today announced its CloudShield DNS Defender and CloudShield SYN Defender, designed to safeguard e-commerce Web sites and Web infrastructures from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Such solutions are critically important as...

Posted 11/20/2007