In light of the escalation of DDoS attacks used as a means of extorting money from online businesses, the news that there has been a significant decrease in vulnerable Network Time Protocol (NTP) serv…
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Drastic decline in vulnerable NTP servers due to Heartbleed?
Cloud code hosting service Code Spaces is forced to shut down, as a DDoS attack coupled with an unsuccessful extortion attempt was followed by the attacker deleting most of its code repositories and b…
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Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack
Earlier this week, Domino’s Pizza became the latest victim of a breach and ransom demand. Recent DDoS attacks on Evernote and Feedly DDoS, along with the efforts of Cryptolocker and other tricks to ex…
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Five steps towards cyber breach preparation
Microsoft has released an update for its Malware Protection Engine to fix a privately reported security vulnerability that could allow a denial of service if the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine sc…
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Microsoft patches DoS flaw in its Malware Protection Engine