In mid-December, network monitoring service BGMON reported on a BGP hijack for numerous high profile organizations, including Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter, meaning that their incoming and outgoing traffic was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider. BGPMON
Fastly and Cloudflare both recently published end-of-year posts looking at the DDoS landscape as a whole. Both CDNs note the ways in which the DDoS landscape is evolving and the trend in increasingly sophisticated types of DDoS attack. Fastly’s position
The latest DDoS attacks against Dyn and Brian Krebs are a defining moment for the CDN industry. Up until last year, large-scale DDoS attacks weren’t much of a concern to content delivery companies. Fast forward to today, and in the
It’s bad, really really bad. A hacker launched a major DDOS attack on Dyn and knocked them offline for hours. Dyn is one of the largest, if not the largest pure-play DNS provider in the world. And if Dyn goes
