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 ...

However you slice it traditional caching requires performance trade-offs that some enterprise applications cannot afford. Find out for yourself why Memcached is a go-to solution for Java developers ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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Developed by Danga Interactive to improve site performance on LiveJournal.com, Memcached‘s distributed architecture today supports the exponential scalability of social web applications like Twitter, ...