Cloudflare Blocks Record DDoS Attack as Threats Surge

Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks last weekend, most of them ranging from 50 to 70 million requests per second (RPS) – and the largest one exceeding 71 million RPS. “This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35 percent higher than the previous reported record of 46 million RPS […]

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February 16, 2023
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Includes Three Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Microsoft’s February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 75 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated critical, and three (all rated important) that are being exploited. “This is only the second Patch Tuesday of the year, and we have already tripled the number of weaponized threats that need to be fixed in this release,” Syxsense CEO and founder Ashley […]

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February 15, 2023
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How to prevent DDoS attacks

The number of DDoS attacks we see around the globe is on the rise, and that trend is likely to continue throughout 2023, according to Corero. We expect to see attackers deploy a higher rate of request-based or packets-per-second attacks. In this Help N…

February 14, 2023
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