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 ...

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 ...

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security researcher Amir Khashayar Mohammadi has released today a new tool named Memfixed that can help victims of DDoS attacks carried out via Memcached servers. The tool, written in Python, was ...

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, ...

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 ...

i have load balanced httpd servers and recently found an issue with my haproxy configs where i was in a "one or the other" config, and not actually balancing traffic between instances. since ...