2016
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The Dyn DDOS Attack And The Changing Balance Of Online Cyber Power
As the denial of service (DDOS) attack against Dyn shook the internet a little over a week ago, it brought to the public forefront the changing dynamics of…
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Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’
Bet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai “The race that stops a nation” could also stop betting agencies if the regular…
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Building the IoT monster
When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she imagined the misguided doctor assembling his creature from dead body parts, who instead of elevating science, created something dark and terrible. A…
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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army
And break every computer crime law along the way A GitHub user going by Leo Linsky has forked a repo created by researcher Jerry Gamblin to create an…
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Ontario literacy test abandoned due to DDoS attack
There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories when it comes to guessing who’s behind cyber attacks. So when it was announced that a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack…
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Smart home threat
Recent cyber-attacks using botnet armies of hacked “internet of things” devices highlights the pressing need for improved security.
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Historic DDoS attack likely waged by ‘non-state actor’: Intel director
The nation’s top intelligence official on Tuesday said state-sponsored hackers likely weren’t behind the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that disrupted internet access across the United States last week.…