Jun142019 by genxwordadminNo Comments
What Is Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) Attack and How to Prevent Such Attack

What Is Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) Attack and How to Prevent Such Attack

Information Security
What Is Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) Attack and How to Prevent Such Attack The non-emergency call centre in Howard County, Maryland typically receives 300 to 400 calls a day. On August 11, 2018, however, the non-emergency call centre of the County, was flooded with 2,500 calls in a 24-hour span of time in an attack known as telephony denial of service (TDoS). What Is Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) Attack? Telephony denial of service (TDoS) is a type of denial of service (DoS) attack in which the attackers launch high volume of calls and keeping those calls active for as long as possible against the target network, preventing legitimate calls to come in. TDoS is a threat not just to government and large enterprises, but also to small and medium-sized…
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Apr162018 by genxwordadminNo Comments
What Is DDoS Attack and How It Affects SMEs

What Is DDoS Attack and How It Affects SMEs

Security
What Is DDoS Attack and How It Affects SMEs If your organization’s website is experiencing an unusual downtime or outages, this could be a sign that your organization’s website is under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS cyberattack renders a targeted website slow or inaccessible. It victimizes not just large enterprises but also small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). DDoS Attacks Against Businesses  An example of a DDoS attack against a small business was the attack against a small brick and mortar jewelry shop in June 2016. The shop’s website had been taken down for days and the owner didn’t know why. Upon investigation, Sucuri found that the shop’s site had been generating traffic of 35,000 to 50,000 HTTP requests per second (RPS) – web traffic that its…
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