ACC-Turbo mitigates pulse-wave DDoS attacks using programmable switches
Guest Post: ACC-Turbo is an open-source, pulse-wave DDoS defence system that runs at line rate, on programmable switches.
Tag: DDoS
Router security in 2021
Guest Post: Cybercriminals now see home routers as gateways to corporate networks, and companies as potential attack vectors.
Industry, popularity effect if customers leave cloud providers following a DDoS attack outage
Guest Post: More popular websites are more likely to make changes to their name server records following a DDoS attack on their cloud provider.
Can we provide SLOs in an open Internet in a scalable manner?
Guest Post: New routing method uses bandwidth reservations, improving speed and security to meet service-level objectives.
Stopping DNS-based DDoS attacks in their tracks
Guest Post: Researchers propose a mechanism for DNS servers to independently determine a client’s preferred protocol.
DNS vulnerability, configuration errors can cause DDoS
Guest Post: An overlooked DNS vulnerability that, when combined with a configuration error, is leading to massive DNS traffic surges.
Event Wrap: KHNOG 3
APNIC staff presented on IPv6, and DDoS prevention at KHNOG 3, held online on 4 December 2021.
ICARUS: Beware of flying satellites
Guest Post: How resilient are LEO satellite networks to DDoS attacks?
Evaluation of anti-DDoS features in full-service resolvers
Guest Post: Simulating a DDoS attack, Japanese researchers tested a full-service resolver configured with both fetch-limit and serve-stale enabled.
Weaponizing middleboxes for TCP reflected amplification
Guest Post: Researchers show how middleboxes and censorship infrastructure can be abused to launch reflected DoS amplification attacks over TCP.