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12.29.2011
Security, Broadband and the Cable Industry
— broadband-technology-report
Article features Tom Bienkowski, Arbor Networks director of product marketing
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12.24.2011
Arbor Networks launches Pravail APS for Indian enterprise data centers
— express-computer
Article quotes Colin Doherty, Arbor Networks President
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12.24.2011
2011, the year of the DDoS?
— cso
Article features Arbor Networks research
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12.15.2011
DDoS attacks can be targeted
— crn
Contributed article by Jeremy Nichols, Arbor Networks director of channels for EMEA
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12.15.2011
Product of the Year Finalists
— search-data-center
Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) was a finalist in the Infrastructure category
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12.10.2011
Congress Pushes Bills To Promote Cybersecurity
— national-public-radio
Interview features Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager of security research
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12.09.2011
Coordinated DDoS Attack During Russian Duma Elections
— harvards-berkman-center-for-internet-a-society-blog
Article features Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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12.06.2011
Toys That Every Data Center Manager Wants For The Holidays
— data-center-journal
Article features Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy
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12.06.2011
The IPv6 switchover: what should enterprises be doing in preparation?
— sc-magazine-uk
Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks Solutions Architect for EMEA
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12.03.2011
The IPv6 Switchover: What Should Enterprises be Doing in Preparation?
— sc-magazine
Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solutions architect for EMEA
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11.25.2011
Cloud Signaling: Bridging the Gap Between the Data Center and the Service Provider
— data-center-journal
Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy
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11.24.2011
Online retailers brace for Black Friday rush
— boston-globe
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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11.24.2011
Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company
— network-world
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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11.24.2011
Un éditeur dresse un palmarès des attaques DDOS dans le monde
— le-monde-informatique
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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11.22.2011
Westcon Group assina acordo de distribuição com a Arbor Networks
— it-web
Overview of Arbor's distribution deal for Pravail APS in Latin America with Westcon
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11.21.2011
Measuring IPv6 growth
— network-world
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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11.21.2011
In the year of the DDoS, how best to fight the fire?
— sc-magazine
Article quotes Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solutions architect for EMEA
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10.25.2011
Ingram to sell Arbor's Pravail APS in Asia Pacific
— telecom-paper
Overview of Arbor's distribution deal for Pravail APS in APAC with Ingram Micro
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10.16.2011
Industry Perspectives: Arbor, Next Generation, Advanced Systems
— data-center-knowledge
Article cites Arbor Networks contributed article on Mitigating Intelligent DDoS Attacks
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10.11.2011
Mitigating Intelligent DDoS Attacks
— data-center-journal
Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy
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10.10.2011
Top 5 investments Univ of Michigan missed out on before deciding to fund its own startups
— annarborcom
Article cites Arbor Networks
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10.10.2011
Experts explain greatest threats to cloud security
— network-world
Article features Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy
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10.06.2011
Chinese-built botnets full of bugs
— sc-magazine
Article features talk at Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona by Arbor Networks Jose Nazario and Jeff Edwards
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09.26.2011
The best hacker films, according to the critics who should know
— wall-street-journal
Article features Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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09.26.2011
Securing the data center
— datacenter-dynamics
Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solution architect for EMEA
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09.19.2011
Arbor Networks Security Solution For High Availability
— zd-net-korea
Interview with Rob Malan, Arbor Networks co-founder and chief technology officer
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09.19.2011
Vocus Communications Joins Arbor Networks Cloud Signaling Coalition
— it-wire
Article quotes Nick Race, Arbor Networks country manager for Australia and New Zealand
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09.13.2011
Arbor Networks Inks Distribution Deal with Tech Data
— crn
Article features Bill Lipsin, Arbor Networks vice president for partners and alliances
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09.13.2011
Arbor Networks looks to Tech Data to take carrier-grade DDoS protection to the channel
— echannelline
Interview with Bill Lipsin, Arbor Networks vice president for partners and alliances
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09.13.2011
Lab Matters - DDoS Bot Landscape 2011
— kaspersky-labs-interviews-arbors-jose-nazario
Video interview with Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager of security research
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09.09.2011
What Constitutes Responsible Disclosure?
— crn
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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09.08.2011
DDoS protection services launched
— sc-magazine
Feature on Tata Communications DDoS managed services quotes Arbor Networks president Colin Doherty
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09.06.2011
Botnet problem is getting worse says Arbor Networks report
— infosecurity-magazine
Article features Arbor Networks research
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09.04.2011
The Middle Eastern Nation Most Vulnerable to Internet Shutdown
— the-atlantic-magazine
Article features Arbor Networks research
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09.01.2011
IPv6: Any closer to adoption?
— ieee-magazine
Article quotes Rob Malan, Arbor Networks co-founder and chief technology officer
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09.01.2011
FBI reveals $600,000-plus Russian DDoS sabotage plot
— infosecurity-magazine-
Article quotes Jeff Edwards, Arbor Networks research analyst
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09.01.2011
Cinq conseils pour sécuriser votre centre de données
— itr-manager-france
Interview with Eric Michonnet, Arbor Networks country manager for France
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08.31.2011
Migrating towards the new Internet, lessons from IPv6 Day
— microscope-uk
Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solutions architect for EMEA
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08.25.2011
DDoS attacks increasingly target small and medium-size firms
— infosecurity-magazine
Article features Eric Jackson, product manager for Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System
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08.25.2011
What did IPv6 Day prove?
— computer-weekly-uk
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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08.18.2011
DDoS Attack Tool Spreads Among Criminal Undergroups
— crn
Feature on research and blog post by Curt Wilson of Arbor's Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT)
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08.17.2011
If unchecked, IPv6 extension headers may affect router performance
— searchenterprisewan
Interview with Bill Cerveny, a sr. software quality assurance engineer at Arbor Networks
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08.15.2011
ProxyNet, Arbor target ISPs with network security solution
— the-punch-africa
Feature article on Arbor's reseller relationship with ProxyNet in Africa
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08.12.2011
How dirty is your data center?
— info-tech-magazine
Article quotes Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing
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08.12.2011
Five Tips to Secure Your Data Center
— info-tech-magazine
Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing
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08.12.2011
Arbor: il Roi di un datacenter è semplice da calcolare
— 01net-italy
Q&A on data center security with Arbor Networks Marco Gioanola
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08.10.2011
DHS Unveils New Strategies For IT Risk Management
— aol-government
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager of security research
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08.01.2011
Digital Hitmen for Hire
— krebs-on-security
Article mentions Arbor Networks research
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07.29.2011
The Rise of the Bots
— cto-forum-india
Article features Samuel Sathyajith, Arbor Networks country manager for India
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07.27.2011
Cybercrime just all too easy
— irish-times
Article quotes Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solutions architect for EMEA
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07.27.2011
IPv6: Come on in, the water's fine
— cnet
Article features Arbor Networks research
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07.27.2011
Cloud Signaling – The Data Center’s Best Defense
— infosecurity-magazine
Contributed blog post by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing
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07.13.2011
Mitigating denial of service attacks
— infosecurity-magazine
Article features Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System
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07.11.2011
Security Begins With Availability
— data-center-journal
Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor's director of product marketing
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07.11.2011
Brennan IT SecureView real-time network security
— voice-a-data
Article features Arbor Networks role in new managed service offering
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07.04.2011
New Product Slideshow
— network-world
Features Arbor Networks Peakflow SP 5.6
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06.29.2011
Network News: Arbor Networks, Juniper, Masergy
— data-center-knowledge
News brief on Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System
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06.21.2011
World IPv6 Day business as usual for Microsoft
— government-computer-news
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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06.10.2011
World IPv6 Day a success, but still a long way to go, says Arbor Networks
— infosecurity-magazine
Article quotes Arbor Networks CTO Rob Malan
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06.09.2011
Internet survived IPv6 “test flight”
— financial-times-tech-hub-blog
Article quotes Arbor Networks CTO Rob Malan
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06.09.2011
World IPv6 Day draws attention to security issues with new protocol
— computerworld
Article features Arbor Networks research and quotes CTO Rob Malan
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06.08.2011
IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day
— network-world
Article features Arbor Networks research and CTO Rob Malan
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06.08.2011
The World IPv6 Day report card
— zd-net
Article features Arbor Networks research and monitoring
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06.02.2011
Brennan IT rolls out Arbor's Peakflow as SecureView service
— sc-magazine-aus
Article features Brennan IT managed service utilizing Arbor Peakflow X
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05.24.2011
Lack of IPv6 traffic stats makes judging progress difficult
— computerworld-via-idg-news
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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05.20.2011
Cloud news roundup
— data-center-knowledge
News brief on Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System
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05.16.2011
Private-sector progress on IPv6 makes government look good, survey finds
— government-computer-news
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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05.11.2011
Arbor Networks Offers Enterprise Data Center Appliances To Counter Application-Based DDoS
— network-computing
Overview of Arbor Pravail APS for Internet Data Centers
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05.10.2011
Data center anti-DDoS package on tap from Arbor
— network-world
Feature on the Arbor Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) for Internet data centers
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05.09.2011
DDoS Attacks Evolve And Spread
— information-week
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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04.28.2011
Microsoft heats up IPv4 market
— information-week
Article cites Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.26.2011
Arbor Networks impegnata per IPv6
— eweek-italy
Article features Arbor Networks research
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04.25.2011
Three steps to make your database more secure
— information-week-brazil
Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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04.25.2011
Need IPv4 addresses? Get 'em here
— computerworld
Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.21.2011
IPv4 address trading sites begin to emerge
— fierce-telecom
Article cites Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.21.2011
IPv6 adoption still lagging as carriers prepare for testing day
— v3-uk
Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.21.2011
Native IPv6 Traffic Rises Ahead of Test Day, Analysis Shows
— cio
Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.19.2011
Arbor Networks traffic study: IPv6 represents .03% of total Internet traffic
— connected-planet
Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.19.2011
IPv6 Web Address Adoption Growing but Traffic Remains Minuscule
— eweek
Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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04.18.2011
Security Early Warning System: The Challenge for Telecom
— billing-world
Q&A with Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas
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04.15.2011
Spammers recover from Rustock take down
— telecoms-europe
Article quotes Carlos Morales, Arbor's vice president of global sales engineering
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03.21.2011
Peer to peer allt mindre del av nätet
— idg-sweden
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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03.18.2011
Skunx botnet discovered with C&C server in the US
— infosecurity-uk
Article features research by Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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03.17.2011
Security Researchers Uncover US-Based DDoS Botnet
— eweek-europe
Article features research by Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research
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03.16.2011
Denial Of Service Attacks Increased Sharply In 2010
— information-week
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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03.10.2011
Battle Against Fast-Flux Botnets Intensifies
— dark-reading
Article quotes Jose Nazario, senior manager of security research with Arbor Networks
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03.09.2011
DDoS botnet attacks gold miners and wine makers
— the-register-uk
Feature on blog post and research by Jeff Edwards of Arbor's security research team, ASERT
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03.08.2011
New Malware, JKDDOS, Targets Commodities Investment Firms
— threat-post
Article features research by Jeff Edwards of Arbor's security research team, ASERT
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03.07.2011
Not-so-great firewall of Libya is switched on
— cso-magazine
Article cites Aror Networks research
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03.04.2011
Internet Servers Are Running But Libya Goes Dark
— eweek-europe
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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03.04.2011
Internet goes dark in Libya amid upheaval
— cbs-news
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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03.04.2011
Libya's Internet GOES DOWN
— huffington-post
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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03.04.2011
Internet traffic in Libya remains cut off
— cbc
Article cites Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor's chief scientist
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03.03.2011
Weaving a new web
— discover-magazine
Article features Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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03.01.2011
Libyan rebels improve net access
— bbc
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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02.24.2011
Thuraya satellite telecom says jammed by Libya
— reuters
Article features Arbor Networks research
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02.22.2011
Libya faces internet blackouts amid protests
— cnn
Article features Arbor Networks research
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02.20.2011
After 42 years, Libya's controversial ruler faces new threats
— cnn
Article features Arbor Networks research
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02.20.2011
Libya, Yemen crack down, dozens killed
— cbs-news-via-ap
Article features Arbor Networks research
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02.20.2011
Libya unrest death toll tops 200
— al-jazeera
Article features Arbor Networks research
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02.19.2011
Libya cuts off Internet service
— new-york-times
Article features Arbor Networks research
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02.17.2011
Bahrain Internet service starting to slow
— msnbc
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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02.08.2011
Cybercrims using security tools as attack vectors
— telecom-asia
Interview with Carlos Morales, Arbor's vice president of global sales engineering and consulting
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02.02.2011
Egypt Live Protests: Audio From The Ground, Internet Returns On Day Nine
— Washington Post Blog
Article includes Arbor Networks graphic
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02.02.2011
DDoS Targeting Firewalls, Intrusion Prevention
— InformationWeek
Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutionsarchitect for Asia
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02.02.2011
Spammers Grab IP Space Assigned to Egyptian President's Wife
— eWeek
Article features Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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02.02.2011
Egypt reverses kill switch, Internet restored
— Computerworld
Article features Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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02.02.2011
Egypt internet comes back online
— BBC
Article uses Arbor Networks graphic
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02.02.2011
DDoS attacks were at their strongest in history in 2010
— SC Magazine UK
Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia
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02.02.2011
Botnets fuel DDoS insurgency
— The Register UK
Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia
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02.01.2011
DDoS attacks turn firewall deployment into liability
— eWeek
Article quotes Roland Dobbins, ArborNetworks solutions architect for Asia
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02.01.2011
The Crumbling Front Line of Security
— CTOEdge
Article quotes Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas
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02.01.2011
DDoS attacks made worse by firewalls, report finds
— Computerworld
Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia
Read the original article here. Excerpt below...
DDoS attacks made worse by firewalls, report finds
By John E Dunn
Techworld.com - The rising tide of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) is being made much worse by a tendency to mis-deploy firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) in front of servers, a report by Arbor Networks has found.
The company surveyed 111 global service providers across fixed and mobile sectors for its 2010 Infrastructure Security Report and uncovered a huge jump in DDoS attack size during the year. Maximum attack sizes reached 100Gbit/s for the first time, double that for 2009, and ten times the peak size seen as recently as 2005, increasingly in the form application attacks rather than simple packet flooding.
Attack frequency also appears to be increasing, with 25 percent of respondents seeing 10 or more DDoS attacks per month, and 69 percent experiencing at least one.
But according to Arbor, service providers and corporate could significantly reduce their DDoS vulnerability by designing their security infrastructure to better locate policy-based security devices such as firewalls.
During 2010, nearly half of all respondents had experienced a failure of their firewall or IPS due to DDoS, something that could have been avoided in many cases using better router security configuration.
"They [firewalls] should not be placed in front of servers. Folks do it because they have been programmed to do it," says Arbor's solutions architect, Roland Dobbins. In many cases, these devices became immediate bottlenecks in the face of DDoS, achieving the attackers' aims with ease. Firewalls and IPS were fine for LANs where they filtered outgoing traffic, but turned into obvious points of failure when used as a barrier to protect servers receiving large volumes of inbound packets, he says.
One thing that is clear form Arbor's report is that DDoS size will go on increasing, fed ironically by increased investment in defences against DDoS generally. Rather like the growth in spam after the advent of efficient filtering, better defences force attackers to up their game, throwing more and more traffic at targets in the hope of having some effect.
An interesting blind spot suggested by Arbor could be mobile networks, which Dobbins describes as being almost "accidental ISPs."
Currently, mobile providers know almost nothing about the state of the handsets using their services, despite half reporting security problems with customers. The same proportion reported outages due to security incidents, which suggests that such networks could become the next frontier for criminals to attack Internet targets.
"They don't have visibility into their IP network. They are almost a decade behind," says Dobbins of providers in this space.
Longer term, a missing piece of the DDoS defence is policing, witha significant minority of respondents expressing a lack of confidence in law enforcement. Many of the sceptical see no point in reporting attacks to the law and have little hope of it doing much good even when they do.
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02.01.2011
Arbor: Mobile networks trail fixed line in security
— CSO
Article quotes Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas
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02.01.2011
Poor firewall implementations pave wave for DDoS attacks
— Infosecurity UK
Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia
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02.01.2011
More than half of mobile providers hit by attacks that resulted in outages
— Dark Reading
Article quotes Carlos Morales, Arbor Networks vice president of global salesengineering and consulting
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02.01.2011
Jail-broken iPhones compounding DDoS threat
— v3 UK
Article quotes Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas
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02.01.2011
DDoS bot infests food processing firms
— The Register UK
Article features research and blog post by Jeff Edwards, Arbor Networks security researcher
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01.31.2011
Only connect…
— BBC
Article features Arbor Networks research and chart on Egypt Internet shutdown
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01.31.2011
Egypt turns off the Internet
— CBS Evening News
Arbor Networks Chief Scientist Craig Labovitz interviewed, Arbor graphic used, segment starts at 16:44
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01.30.2011
Taking an entire country offline. How did they do it?
— The Daily Mail UK
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt Shuts Down Internet, Cellphone Services
— Wall Street Journal
Features Arbor Networks research and graphic, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt Cuts Off Most Internet and Cell Service
— New York Times
Article features Arbor Networks research and graphic
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01.28.2011
Egypt severs internet connection amid growing unrest
— BBC
Article features Arbor Networks research and graphics
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01.28.2011
Article features Arbor Networks research and graphics
— CNN
Article features Arbor Networks research and graphic, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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01.28.2011
How Did Egypt Kill the Internet?
— ABC News
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt Cuts Off Access to the Internet Following Street Protests
— Bloomberg
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt Shows How Easily Internet Can Be Silenced
— CNBC
Article features Arbor Networks research and graphic
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01.28.2011
Egypt Shut Down Its Net With a Series of Phone Calls
— WIRED Threat Level Blog
Article features Arbor Networks graphic and quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt's 'Net blockage an 'Armageddon approach'
— Network World via Computerworld
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt's 'Net blockage an 'Armageddon approach'
— Computerworld
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.28.2011
Egypt's Internet outage shows the Web's power — and its weakness
— The Boston Globe
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.26.2011
Facebook, Google, Yahoo commit to 'World IPv6 Day' trial
— Computerworld
Cites Arbor Networks research.
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01.26.2011
The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark
— Associated Press
Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist
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01.26.2011
Twitter Says Access to Service in Egypt Is Blocked
— BusinessWeek
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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01.12.2011
Facebook, Google, Yahoo commit to 'World IPv6 Day' trial
— Computerworld
Article cites Arbor Networks research
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01.10.2011
MichAgain program brings Michigan's college grads back into the fold
— ResearchCorridor
Features Kris Lamb, vice president of engineering at Arbor Networks.