Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attackers are using a new technique to knock websites offline by targeting vulnerable 'middleboxes', such as firewalls, to amplify junk traffic attacks.

While the world grapples with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises continue to be bombarded with cyberattacks. Many cybersecurity companies rely on devices such as firewalls, ...

Microsoft Corp. disclosed Friday that outages that affected its customers earlier this month were caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack launched by a threat actor called Storm-1359. The ...

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Anthony O’Neill, CISO for Massachusetts says the state has seen an increase in distributed denial-of-service attacks. The state is shifting investments to modern firewall technology that improve their ...

My company is getting some DDoS attacks that target specific IPs. Sometimes attacks that are smaller than our uplink overwhelm our firewalls and what's behind them go offline. The firewalls do some ...

Microsoft has launched a new Network Security Hub, an enhanced experience that brings together Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF) and DDoS Protection under one unified interface. This hub ...

Cisco Wednesday outlined its technology and pricing strategy for a new version of the Firewall Services Module that has so far been free for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches as a way to set up ...