As our recent articles about web application risks indicate, more than frenzied last minute shoppers come out to “celebrate” the holidays, and here’s proof that the threat’s are real.
DotBridge, an eCommerce SaaS provider fell prey to a DDoS onslaught. Someone wanted to attack one of their customers web-based business and take it offline, and without a secure hosting company at his back, they may have succeeded.
DotBridge subscribes to our secure, virtualized server service protected by 1) monitoring and response, 2) DoS/DDoS mitigation devices, and 3) a team of knowledgeable and reactive support engineers.
This combination of protection and response is standard for every client that subscribes to our service, and DotBridge is just one real-life example of how we work every day fighting on behalf of our valued customers.
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In MMA, fighters find the Guillotine or Rear Naked Choke to be reliable tactics for eliciting a submission. In cyber warfare, a DDoS attack is the “go to” move that produces the ultimate cyber smackdown effectively, time after time.
Soon after the Internet became a household word, so did “virus”. People learned that they had to protect their computers and email inbox or risk data loss, identity theft or malicious activity to their home machines. Over the last decade the internet has grown by leaps and bounds, and companies of every size now conduct business online.
In general terms, hackers use denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to tie up processor resources rendering the computer useless to you, the user. DoS/DDoS attacks can manifest in a number of ways. The target computer may be forced to reset numerous times consuming processor resources and incapacitating the machine. These attacks can also disrupt your service by obstructing communication with end-users.
