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Get Rid of CAPTCHA with HiveShield

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Looking for an alternative to CAPTCHA and its variants? Tired of alienating your visitors with annoying human verification processes? Would you like to reclaim some of your conversion rates and engagement metrics? If you said “yes” to any of the above, you might consider HiveShield. It’s a Load-Balancing HTTP/S Proxy with a unique, market-leading completely-automated […]
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90% OFF – Double the Cores – Best Cyber Monday Deal

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Meet HiveShield, the Load-Balancer that has Your Back against Bad Robots: Spam Bots – Fake User Registrations, Comment Spam and more … Hacking Bots Password-Guessing & Brute-Force Login Bots DDoS Attacks Bots (With HiveShield, you can remove all CAPTCHA from your site.) How to lock-in the DEAL Create an account for FREE right NOW to […]
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04Jan

Meltdown and Spectre Attack: Patches 2018.01.04

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HiveWind’s HiveShield runs on either “Amazon Linux” or “CentOS Linux”. In either case, stay abreast of Amazon Linux and CentOS patches and simply run “yum update” as patches become available, then reboot via shutdown -r now: sudo yum update sudo shutdown -r now US-CERT has published an initial guidance and links to a first wave of […]
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WordPress Brute-Force Log-In Bots: Firefox/40.1 – Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1

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Many of our clients are reporting the fact that our platform is successfully blocking just about all brute-force log-in attempts by yet another spat of robots with the “Firefox/40.1” User-Agent. Here’s an example request captured on our own deployment via ngrep: POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1. Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: */* [...]
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Cure for Newsletter Bombs

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This article by BetaNews covers a new trend of “Newsletter Bombs“, as a new form of DDoS. This time, instead of your Web Site being taken-down, your e-mail box is rendered useless. From monitoring our logs and discussing with our clients, we have reasons to believe that our product HiveShield, available for deployment in AWS Cloud […]
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17Apr

Web Hosting Firms: DDoS Protection for Clients

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HiveShield Enterprise is a Load-Balancer that will: Mitigate DDoS Attacks Block Spam Bots Block Brute-Force Login Attempts Block scripted vulnerability scans When was the last time a Load Balancer was this useful to you? Since we first launched HiveShield 2 years ago in Amazon AWS, we have been regularly approached by Web Hosting Firms seeking to protect their […]
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Celebrating 2 Years Today

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Today marks 2 years since we first launched HiveShield on the Amazon AWS Marketplace. Already at version 2.6 and 2.7 just around the corner, we never cease to innovate as we relentlessly seek new ways to bring value to our clients. April’s a big month for us: We were a wild success at HostingCon Global 2017 […]
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HiveWind at HostingCon Global 2017 & $150 Off All-Access Pass

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We’re thrilled to announce that we will be exhibiting at HostingCon Global 2017 at Booth 529 If you would like to save $150 on an All-Access Pass for HostingCon Global 2017, send us an email to hostingcon@hivewind.com, and we’ll hook you up, “while supplies last”. If you wish to learn more about the DDoS Threat […]
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DDoS Reflection Attacks

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DDoS Reflection Attacks are a particularly effective vector in a perpetrator’s tool chest to take your site offline, as they allow the attacker to summon a much smaller number of their zombie robots. Other types of attacks require the perpetrator to summon a large amount of their zombie robots to take-down your site. How it […]
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22Oct

Halloween DDoS News

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  Anonymous attacks two Japanese airports UK e-tailers hit by suspected DDoS barrage Attackers hijack CCTV cameras and network-attached storage devices to launch DDoS attacks DDoS scammers collect $20,000 with Ashley Madison extortion  
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