by FastNetMon | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) are a significant risk to businesses of any size. One study found that recovering from a DDoS attack costs between $120,000 and $2m (£93,000 – £1.55m) depending on the size of the company affected. Most of this cost...
by FastNetMon | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
Carpet bombing DDoS attacks are an increasingly common form of cybercrime because they are harder to detect and block than a traditional targeted attack. However, FastNetMon provides powerful configuration options to help you identify and defend your systems. What is...
by FastNetMon | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
The increased severity and sophistication of DDoS attacks means that network security administrators need a collection of tools to mitigate risk. One effective option to reduce malicious traffic is the use of a cloud-based DDoS scrubbing service. But under the...
by FastNetMon | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
First used in 2016, the Mirai botnet is old news. Built by two university students, the IoT-powered botnet was initially used to extort money from games server hosts. A few months later Mirai was used to launch one of the largest DDoS attacks ever seen against...
by FastNetMon | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
Application Layer DDoS attacks are an extremely popular, and effective, technique used by cybercriminals to disrupt web-based services. There are several variations of application layer attacks, so mitigating them can be a challenge. What are application layer DDoS...
by FastNetMon | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog
Denial of service attacks all have one goal in common – to use network traffic to overload a target system causing it to fail or become unresponsive. For the criminals behind these attacks, there is another consideration – how to achieve that goal at minimal cost to...
