cybersecurity

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack happens when a malicious group in possession of a large botnet starts sending an never-ending stream of connection requests and other types of traffic in order to overwhelm your web server, ecommerce operations, or other web connect assest.  Often the motive for these attacks are to extort money from the targeted victim, but sometimes these attacks may be social or politically motivated as ...

Kaspersky is a security software company with a pretty good reputation.  Their products usually score in the top five in any independent malware detection and removal test.  Of course, they are a company that is headquartered in Russia, which might just make you a little nervous.

But many high quality security software companies are located in places like Finland (F-Secure), Czech Republic (AVG), The UK (Sophos), and Spain (Panda). And the Unites ...

As a side note to my day today, for the last 24 hours or so someone, or several someones, have been attempting to brute force the login credential for this web site.  Thanks to my web site security, I am aware of the attempts, and it appears that the security applications are doing a great job of preventing an intrusion.  Besides the automated password cracking attempt, there have been SQL injection attempts blocked, spam comments blocked, and even a DDoS attack thwarted.

Some of ...