AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

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 is a high-performance, distributed caching system. Although application-neutral, it's most commonly used to speed up dynamic Web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is used ...

A mitigation mechanism is available for all victims who are under a DDoS attack carried out via Memcached servers. This mitigation technique relies on the attacked victim sending a "flush_all" command ...

Crooks can abuse Memcached servers to launch insanely massive DDoS attacks using very few computational resources on their end. These type of DDoS attacks are possible because of the unsecured way ...

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Multiple security vendors this week are warning about threat actors for the first time exploiting unprotected Memcached servers to launch dangerously large denial-of-service attacks against target ...

Two of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded on the internet have been launched over the last seven days, taking advantage of sloppy configuration settings to force prominent ...

Database-driven websites increasingly depend on distributed caching to deliver adequate performance. This is particularly true in the social networking space where scalability is everything. One ...

This week, memcached, a piece of software that prevents much of the Internet from melting down, turns 10 years old. Despite its age, memcached is still the go-to solution for many programmers and ...