The increasing number and size of DDoS attacks and their costly and devastating effects on brand perception have not passed unnoticed by North American businesses, most of which have heightened their …
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DDoS threat recognized by all members of the C-suite
In order to provide organizations insight into the most insidious and pervasive banking botnets currently being used to target financial institutions and their clients, Dell SecureWorks released at RS…
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Banking botnets persist despite takedowns
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Simda botnet taken down in global operation The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers …
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Week in review: APT wars, 18-year-old bug endangers Windows users, and main sources of data breaches
On April 8, a global operation targeted the Beebone (also known as AAEH) botnet, a polymorphic downloader bot which installs various forms of malware on victims’ computers. Initial figures show tha…
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Polymorphic Beebone botnet sinkholed in international police operation
Mismatched clocks allow poison packets to prevent synching, and sink you Red Hat security chap Miroslav Lichvar has revealed two vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) that allow attackers to get clients to execute unauthenticated packets.…
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Denial of service attacks pour through rift in Network Time Protocol
Neustar surveyed IT professionals from across EMEA to understand the impact of DDoS attacks. 40 percent of companies estimate hourly losses of over £100,000 at peak times during a DDoS outage,…
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Half of companies under DDoS attack have critical data stolen
Popular web-based Git repository hosting service GitHub has been battling a massive DDoS attack – the biggest they have ever experienced – for the last four days. “The attack began around 2AM UTC o…
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Massive DDoS against GitHub continues
Users unwittingly add to chronic traffic congestion GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…
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GitHub jammed by injected JavaScript, servers whacked by DDoS
The increase in the frequency, volume and sophistication of DDoS attacks has helped boost the awareness of these threats among Asia-Pacific (APAC) enterprises. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan fi…
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A proactive approach to DDoS attack prevention
One in five businesses surveyed believe that their online services should be protected against DDoS attacks by their IT service providers (in particular, network providers). However, this responsibili…
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Companies expects others to protect them against DDoS attacks