We've been seeing a rise of ever bigger Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for years now. But, now a new attack method, Memcrashed, can blast your site with over a terabyte of traffic. Good ...

memcached servers are an irresistibly attractive means for firing packed cannons at any target without needing a botnet infrastructure, warns Tod Beardsley, research director at Rapid7. The warning ...

I've been necessarily brief explaining both Memcached and LiveJournal's backend, so please e-mail me at [email protected] for any more information. Also, check out the ...

Hackers have found a way to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks by an unprecedented 51,000 times their original strength in a development that whitehats say could lead to new record-setting ...

A new kind of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) has hit the Internet, with amplification parameters that have never been seen before by security experts. This new attack uses Memcache as an enabler ...

Memcached or Redis? It’s a question that nearly always arises in any discussion about squeezing more performance out of a modern, database-driven web application. When performance needs to be improved ...