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Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date.

This past year has been one for the record books when it comes to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, so it is only proper that 2016 closes out with news of another massive DDoS attack, reported by Imperva researchers. According to them, the Imperva Incapsula network was forced to mitigate a 650 Gbps DDoS attack just a few days before Christmas.

Internet pioneer Bruce Schneier issued a dire proclamation in front of the House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Committee Wednesday: “It might be that the internet era of fun and games is over, because the internet is now dangerous.”

Oracle announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, the leading cloud-based Internet Performance and DNS provider that monitors, controls, and optimizes Internet applications and cloud services to deliver faster access, reduced page load times, and higher end-user satisfaction.

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Victime d'une attaque DDOS sur votre serveur Linux, voici quelques actions à faire...

Le serveur Apache n'est plus à présenter et propose nombre d'options liées à la sécurité en soi [1]. Pour autant, des modules tiers permettent d'étendre ses possibilités, que ce soit en termes de filtrage des requêtes et des réponses ou pour contrer les attaques visant à surcharger le serveur. Cet article présente deux de ces modules : mod_security et mod_dosevasive. Tout au long de l'article, nous prendrons l'exemple d'un proxy entrant, mais ces exemples sont bien sûr facilement transposables à un serveur web. mod_security : validation et filtrage des échanges

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Le principe de ce mod est assez sympa et couplé à IPTables il peut être vraiment efficace. ;-) Il est permet de limiter la casse en cas d’attaque de type DDoS ou de brute force et tout autres attaques de ce genre.

If you're about P2P and DDoS mitigation, this one is for you...

I'd like to think that this is a must read for anyone who's ever said, "I just have a little home computer. If people want to hack into it, they will, but there's nothing worth taking on there." When you're building an army of 20,000 to 30,000 zombie PCs, each and every computer becomes valuable. The reader comments at the end of this article help explain why.