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ISPs under strain from barrage of DDoS attacks
News Internet service providers now spend most of their IT security resources detecting and mitigating distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a report from Arbor Networks. Rob Malan, founder and chief technology officer of Arbor Networks...
[November 12, 2008, 9:35]
Hackers to focus on iPhone next year
News IT security company Arbor Networks released a statement on Tuesday declaring that the iPhone will be a big target amongst cybercriminals next year. We expect 2008 to be the year of the iPhone attack, the Chinese hacker, P2P network spammers and the...
[December 13, 2007, 7:45]
New tool camouflages hacker programs
News Arbor Networks security researcher Dug Song posted the tool to his Web site this week. Song was travelling and could not be reached for comment, an Arbor representative said, and his company would not comment on the issue.
[April 22, 2002, 9:11]
Code Red remains a major threat
News At present, more than 18,000 systems appear to be infected and, with a simple command, could be co-opted into an attack that could take down any Web site, said Dug Song, a hacker and security architect for network protection firm Arbor Networks.
[May 7, 2002, 9:04]
McAfee forms zombie-killer alliance
News McAfee, a division of Network Associates, this week will announce a research and development partnership with three anti-DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) vendors -- Arbor Networks, Asta Networks and Mazu Networks -- with the goal of developing...
[August 21, 2001, 10:03]
Microsoft offers $250k bounty for Downadup arrest
News Participating are: the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), VeriSign, NeuStar, CNNIC, Afilias, Public Internet Registry, Global Domains International, M1D Global, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure, ISC, Georgia Tech, the Shadowserver...
[February 13, 2009, 12:06]
Explaining the Estonian cyberattacks
News Arbor Networks has a tool called the Active Threat Level Analysis System (Atlas) that enables Nazario to collect information on DoS attacks worldwide. As senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, Nazario closely monitors network attacks.
[May 30, 2007, 15:34]
Security firms reveal botnet on Twitter
News A Twitter account can be used as the command centre for harnessing a botnet of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec have reported. In a blog post on Friday, Symantec analyst Peter Coogan wrote that researchers found...
[August 17, 2009, 8:52]
Arbor Uncovers Worm Infections Inside One of the World's Largest Banks
White Papers By deploying Arbor Networks' Peakflow X on its corporate network, covering more than 30,000 routers, Wide Area Network (WAN) edge routers, and core infrastructure switches, the bank can now monitor its core worldwide network.
[August 26, 2009, 1:20]
Worm exploits Solaris hole
News The worm attempts to log into systems running Solaris 10, execute a number of commands to plant itself and then spread to other vulnerable computers, Jose Nazario, a senior software engineer at Arbor Networks, wrote on his company's blog on Tuesday.
[March 1, 2007, 8:06]
Botnet gangs collaborate on malware
News Nazario, senior researcher for security company Arbor Networks, said the firm had seen the Avalanche botnet spamming out Zeus code. Nazario said Arbor researchers were surprised when they first saw the two groups working together, but their...
[December 11, 2009, 11:01]
Pakistan lifts YouTube ban amid speculation
News Researchers at security company Arbor Networks said YouTube could have been knocked out by ISPs in Pakistan announcing to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community that it was blocking YouTube. A Pakistani ISP could have statically routed YouTube...
[February 27, 2008, 12:55]
DDoS attacks - one year later
News London and his competitors -- Asta Networks and the newly announced Arbor Networks -- believe their customers are more interested in keeping their connection to the Internet up and working rather than prosecuting an attacker.
[February 7, 2001, 12:47]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News There has been a lot of occasions of people saying, 'hey, let's have a party and deface a lot of Web sites,' and not much has come from it," said Jose Nazario, worm and denial-of-service attack researcher for security company Arbor Networks.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Net attack flops, but threat persists
News Had the attack prevented access to the servers for eight to 10 hours, the average computer user may have noticed slower response times, said Craig Labovitz, director of network architecture for denial-of-service prevention firm Arbor Networks.
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
Spam levels drop after plug pulled on hosting site
News Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks, a company that monitors botnet activity, speculated that McColo vanished at around 9am Eastern time on 10 November. Internet hosting site McColo disappeared on Tuesday, and with it went thousands of pieces of spam...
[November 13, 2008, 8:08]
Google network outage hit one in seven users
News Craig Labovitz of Arbor Networks, an ISP services company, reported that traffic across ten major North American ISPs collapsed from 15Gbps to around 1Gbps. More than one in ten Google users around the world lost the use of some or all of the...
[May 15, 2009, 12:39]
DoS attacks becoming commonplace
News Some sites merely experience bad performance, but that's a big deal to a service provider," said Ted Julian, chief strategist at Arbor Networks, which offers a hardware/software system for countering denial-of-service attacks.
[May 29, 2001, 13:42]
Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
News Dug Song, security architect for network security company Arbor Networks, said the outage appeared to be an Akamai problem. In a recent incident, the Netsky virus used such a technique to target Kazaa and other file-sharing networks, disrupting...
[June 16, 2004, 8:35]
'Fast-flux' domains help botnets evade capture
News The study's authors, Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks and Thorsten Holz of the University of Mannheim, tracked the traffic of 900 fast-flux domain names used by botnets within the first six months of 2008.
[October 9, 2008, 10:03]
