2016
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Bitter feud between partners as IBM deflects eCensus blame
NextGen, Vocus refute claims of error. A bitter feud has broken out between IBM and its internet service provider partners for the 2016 eCensus as the main contractor…
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Media vulnerable to Election Night cyber attack
A hack on the AP and its results tally could have chaos-inducing consequences. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on security upgrades, U.S. media organizations have failed…
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Ubisoft’s Servers Have Been Down For Several Hours, Could Be DDoS
Since early this morning gamers have reported server issues when playing Ubisoft games across all platforms. Ubisoft Support has confirmed the problem, sharing that it is affecting all…
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Internet service providers face DDoS attack second time in the last three months
The service providers have also alleged that their complaints about the DDoS attacks have gone ignored. Internet service providers (ISPs), mainly from Mumbai and Pune, claimed they are…
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Leaked Mirai source code already being tested in wild, analysis suggests
Since the source code to the Mirai Internet of Things botnet was publicly leaked on Sept. 30, researchers at Imperva have uncovered evidence of several low-level distributed denial of serviceattacks likely perpetrated by…
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A Decade of DDoS Education: What’s Changed and What’s Stayed the Same
While Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for over 20 years, they have only become well-known to the majority of enterprises over the past ten…
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130,000 Avtech IP cameras, DVRs can be easily roped into IoT botnets
Security researcher Gergely Eberhardt has unearthed over dozen of vulnerabilities in most IP cameras, NVRs and DVRs by Taiwanese manufacturer Avtech, including things like plaintext storage of administrative…
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How the ‘Internet of unpatchable things’ leads to DDoS attacks
For at least the past year there have been repeated warning to makers of Internet-connected devices about the insecurity of their platforms. Another came today in a report…
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Singapore rolls out high-level cyber security strategy
The Government is taking decisive steps to tackle cyber threats – including almost doubling the proportion of its technology budget dedicated to plugging security gaps in critical infrastructure.…