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 ...

Google today announced the beta of Memorystore for Memcached, a new service that provides a fully managed in-memory datastore that is compatible with the open-source Memcached protocol. It will join ...

Proof-of-concept code to run massive DDoS attacks using unsecured Memcached servers has been published online this week, along with a ready-made list of over 17,000 IP addresses belonging to ...

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 ...