2016
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ICIT Finds Healthcare Sector at Great Risk for DDoS Attacks
Healthcare, financial, and energy are the top three sectors facing the highest risk of a DDoS attack, a recent ICIT report found. With its high dependency on digital…
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2017 predictions: US isolationism, DDoS, data sharing
Without a doubt, 2016 was the year of the DDoS. The year came to a close with a major DDoS attack on DNS provider Dyn, which took down…
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Bigger than Mirai: Leet Botnet delivers 650 Gbps DDoS attack with ‘pulverized system files’
Earlier in the year, a huge DDoS attack was launched on Krebs on Security. Analysis showed that the attack pelted servers with 620 Gbps, and there were fears…
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Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent down DDoS Attack
The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent, two of the biggest remaining torrent sites on the internet, appear to be unavailable for users right now. According to TorrentFreak , a…
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Trump must focus on cyber security
When Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, he’ll face an urgent and growing threat: America’s vulnerability to cyberattack. Some progress has been made in…
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Education Ministry website is under DDoS-attacks
Website of the Ministry of Education and Science does not work due to DDoS-attack. As noted by Interfax-Ukraine, citing the press service of the department, the attack on…
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Thai police charge man in hacking attacks on gov’t sites
Police in Thailand on Monday charged a suspect with participating in recent hacking attacks on government computers that were billed as a protest against a restrictive law governing…
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A year in infosec: Bears, botnets, breaches … and elections
History made How often can we say that an IT blunder might have changed the course of world history? Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst…
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Group that attacked Tumblr threatens to DDoS Xbox for Christmas
A new hacking group is taking credit for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down Tumblr this week. But so far, little is known about R.I.U. Star…