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- 5 Feb 2014
Beware! Cyber Attackers Using DDoS Attacks Influence Stock Prices
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, last night shared an analysis of nearly a dozen global DDoS attacks that indicates cyber…
- 31 May 2020
6 Ways to Protect Your Networks Against DDoS Attacks
A DDoS attack can happen to anyone. In the past, it has hit Twitter, Telegram, GitHub, and the BBC. Whole governments, like those of Ecuador and Estonia, have had their websites knocked out by it.…
- 1 Sept 2017
20 Years of DDoS Attacks – Looking Back, Looking Forward
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are more popular and dangerous today than at any time in history. In 20 years, DDoS attacks have gone from being a novelty to a nuisance, and finally…
- 5 May 2015
The Case of Simultaneous, Short Duration DDoS Attacks
Over the last decade, DDoS attacks have proliferated, possibly becoming the primary threat for every website or web application. The ultimate goal is to bring down sites by flooding them with fake…
- 22 Jan 2014
Prolexic Publishes Top 10 DDoS Attack Trends for 2013
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has published its top 10 attack trends for 2013 with advice on enterprises to increase…
- 11 Feb 2014
Prolexic Issues High Alert Threat Advisory for DNS Flooder DDoS Attack Toolkit
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has issued a high alert DDoS attack threat advisory on the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit. The toolkit…
- 14 Jan 2014
Report Shows Mobile Apps Being Used for DDoS Attacks
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has reported that mobile applications are being used in DDoS attacks against enterprise…
- 19 Oct 2017
A Buyer’s Market in the Global Economics of DDoS Attacks
It’s a buyer’s market in the local property arena at the moment, according to certain industry experts. This is largely as a result of the slower economy, which has seen a rise in the number…
- 11 Oct 2013
Prolexic Protects OnCourse Systems for Education, SaaS Applications against DDoS Attacks
Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today that OnCourse Systems for Education, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) K-12…
- 8 Aug 2022
DDOS Attacks see Smart Rise in Q2
During Q2 of this year, distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks reached new heights as both the number of smart attacks, and the average duration of these attacks, increased sharply. Compared to…
- 8 Aug 2018
DDoS Attacks via IoT Devices Threaten Development of Fourth Industrial Revolution
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that use Internet of Things devices are a significant threat to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the potential it brings to revolutionise…
- 26 May 2016
Gilat Satcom Warns: DDoS Attacks on African Networks Increase
Gilat Satcom has raised alarm on increased Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks on IT networks in Africa. The Company said that among top 10 sectors most likely to be targeted by DDoS…
- 23 Jan 2016
Nigerian Firms Join Arbor Advantage, Strengthen Fight against DDoS Attacks
Networks Unlimited, leading value-added distributor, has announced that amidst increasing reports of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, two new Nigerian based companies have joined the…
- 9 Nov 2021
DDoS Attacks Up by 300% in Africa Since 2019
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Africa have increased by 300% in 2021, compared to the same period in 2019. The continent experienced a similar spike in February 2020, coinciding with…
- 13 Mar 2014
Prolexic Issues High Alert DDoS Attack Threat Advisory
Prolexic Technologies the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, now part of Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), has issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification…
- 9 Mar 2018
Almost 2Tbps: Arbor Networks Foils Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
In a world in which bigger often means better, Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT, was recently put to the test and passed with flying colours. This is according to Bryan…
- 14 Nov 2013
Prolexic Advises Against a Multi-Layered Strategy to Block DDoS Attacks
Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announced today it has published a new executive series white paper that alerts businesses of the pitfalls of…
- 6 Dec 2019
21st Century Technologies, Nexusguard to Provide Cyber Resilience for DDoS Attacks in Nigeria
21st Century Technologies Limited, a leading ICT powerhouse in Nigeria has partnered with Nexusguard, a leading DDoS security solution provider to unveil DDoS scrubbing center in Nigeria to provide…
- 8 Dec 2017
Kaspersky Reports Upsurge in PoS, DDOS Attacks
Over 77% of companies globally have suffered from some kind of attack during the past 12 months, says Kaspersky. This is according to the Kaspersky Lab IT Security Economics Report, which notes that…
- 14 Aug 2014
Verisign Says DDoS Average Attack Size Exceeds 200% in 2Q2014
Latest report from Verisign indicates that the average size of DDoS attacks in the last quarter grew a staggering 216% from Q1 2014, with nearly two-thirds coming in at over 1Gbps. The Firm, in its…
- 12 May 2016
Layer3, Arbor Networks Partners to Curb DDoS Attacks
Layer3, a leading network and security solutions provider, has been appointed by Arbor Networks as its Channel partner in West Africa. Arbor Networks is a leading provider of network security…
- 7 Sept 2022
DDoS Attacks Pound Africa as Liquid Launches Solution
Liquid Networks has launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Secure offering for internet and IP transit clients in Africa. In its announcement of the launch, the Cassava Technologies company…
- 6 Nov 2017
Preparation is Key When Defending against DDoS Attacks
By Bryan Hamman If you are well prepared with your security systems – deployed in a holistic manner – you can prevent generic threats from getting into your environment. With the right tools,…
- 15 Oct 2025
Hacktivists Use Hashtags as Coordination Tools, DDoS Dominates Attacks in 2025
Kaspersky researchers have published a new report, Signal in the Noise, analysing more than 120 hacktivist groups and over 11,000 hacktivist posts shared across surface and dark web channels in 2025.…
- 23 Oct 2013
DDoS Perpetrators Change Tactics, Launch High-Bandwidth Attacks
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, has reported that DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide…
- 7 Jan 2014
Prolexic Releases Video Tour of DDoS Security Operations Center
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today released a new video tour of its DDoS Security Operations Center (SOC). The six-minute…
- 7 Oct 2018
Five Steps to Evaluating a DDoS Managed Service Provider
The news that the Southern African Department of Labour was recently able to foil a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on one of its external facing servers in early September reminds us…
- 10 Nov 2017
DDoS Mitigation Best Practice in an IoT world
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a conversation that has been gathering momentum in the public space for around the past five years or so, even though the concept has been around for a few decades.…
- 25 Sept 2013
Prolexic Gets Arab National Bank Job to Mitigate DDoS
Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, said that Arab National Bank (ANB), a commercial bank serving more than 2 million customers across Saudi…
- 13 Jan 2016
Firm Says Online Stores are at Risk of Attacks by Hackers
As retail stores ramp up their online offerings to entice shoppers, companies need to be on guard. A common belief is that hackers target individual accounts, but this needs to be “mythbusted”. The…