DDoS Protection Explained
Quite a large number of websites have endured Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks over the years. Usually these types of attacks cause massive numbers of computers to send …
Addressing Ransomware Attacks
First, what exactly are ransomware attacks and what’s the motivation behind them? Motivation seems easy enough to decipher – it’s monetary greed. In every instance I’d read about, there’s …
Understanding DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are simply distributed denial of service attacks whereby unscrupulous cybercriminals try to overwhelm a website with bogus traffic from multiple sources. At first, they primarily attacked important …
Why Your Website Should Always Be A Good Host
Your website is the true hub of your digital brand. Sometimes, it even stands in for your brand altogether. Your social media, your branded copy, your PPC, your emails …
WordPress Plugins – the Highs and Lows
WordPress is beyond doubt, the most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the globe, followed by others like Joomla, Drupal and more, and part of that popularity comes because …
Noction optimizes Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) automation
Noction automates BGP which helps improve multi-homed network performance, essentially making it a vastly improved version of BGP. BGP has been around for decades When BGP was first formalized …
Tips for Hosting Magento Websites
If your corporation or organization is poised for extraordinary growth and would love to see your online sales jump by up to 40% annually, then Magento may be for …
The consequences of short DDoS attacks. Are you susceptible?
The WHIR ran an article years ago entitled, “Report: Short DDoS Attacks Can Have Lasting Security Impact,” in which they delved into the security risks of short DDoS (distributed …
RAID 5 versus RAID 10, HDD and SSD
Let’s set some reference points upfront so that we can accurately discuss the differences between these two types of RAID arrays. RAID Arrays RAID 5 is a RAID ((redundant array of …
Phishing attacks – some stats
I just read where 4 out of 5 phishing attacks originate from either the Netherlands or the United States. Not surprisingly, the article also asserted a close relationship between …