Tag: internet

Spamhaus, Cyberbunker and the largest DDoS attack on Record

Botnet owners took a page out of Chef Emeril Legasse’s cookbook and ‘kicked it up a notch’ last week when they launched a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Internet spam fighter Spamhaus, content delivery provider CloudFlare and other Internet infrastructure providers. The Spamhaus Project provides blacklisting services to many ISPs and email servers around the world with the intent of stopping the billions of spam emails sent daily

Scheduled Access through the Firewall

With this video, you’re going to learn how to set up scheduled firewall policies that will only allow traffic to certain sites at certain times of the day. For this example, we’re going to institute a policy allowing access to Youtube and Facebook only during usual lunch hours. Having such policies in place can help maintain productivity without completely restricting access to recreational content on the web, which is increasingly a regular part of users’ daily lives.