2016
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Renowned blog KrebsOnSecurity hit with massive DDoS attack
The 620 Gbps DDoS attack was built on a massive botnet. The security blog KrebsOnSecurity has been hit with one of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
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Spam is once again on the rise
Spam volume is back to mid-2010 heights, and Cisco Talos researchers say that the Necurs botnet is partly to blame. “Many of the host IPs sending Necurs’ spam…
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Cybersecurity is threatening America’s military supremacy
The sparsely populated Spratly Islands, a collection of hundreds of islands and reefs spread over roughly 165,000 square miles in the South China Sea, are very quickly becoming…
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Blizzard’s Battle.net Servers Knocked Offline By Another DDoS Attack
Blizzard Entertainment became a victim of yet another distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack as its Battle.net servers were knocked down on Sunday, Sept. 18. The DDoS attack that rendered…
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DDoS always knocks twice
If you were DDoSed once, you will be DDoSed again, that is for sure. A company is rarely attacked by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) just once.…
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Waiting for DDoS
In football, many offensive plays are designed to trick the defense into thinking something else is about to unfold. In the world of cybersecurity, DoS (Denial of Service)…