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 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 ...

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, ...