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, ...

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 ...

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We updated our mimir-distributed Helm Chart to 5.8.0 recently which include the changes from PR #11041, with this our memcached clients fail to connect with SRV ...

Web security and caching giant Cloudflare has announced the detection of a flaw in the popular Memcached object caching system, a popular method of boosting database performance, which is being ...

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 ...