2016
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Why smart companies don’t sweat the SSL stuff in DDoS defense
The average company suffers 15 DDoS attacks per year, with average attacks causing 17 hours of effective downtime, including slowdowns, denied customer access or crashes, according to a recent…
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Teen hacker walks free after carrying out DDoS attacks on bank and e-crime portal
Australian teenager who DDoSed E-crime website, Commonwealth Bank and his own school, walks free This teen did something and got away with it! Seldom do you see anyone…
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Attackers could abuse DNSSEC-secured domains for DDoS attacks: report
A majority or 80% of DNSSEC-secured domains could be used to amplify distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, at an average factor of 28.9 times, according to a…
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DDoS attacks on the rise in Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific region experienced 34,000 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2016, according to Nexusguard’s Q2 2016 Threat Report – Asia-Pacific. The…
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What You Need to Know about the Evolution of DDoS
In an attempt to define the modern-day DDoS attack, one must understand – there is more than one type of attack. Starting with the simplest first, network level…
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New cryptocurrency ‘DDoSCoin’ incentivizes users for participating in DDoS attacks
The number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which tries to make an online service unavailable by flooding it with traffic from multiple sources, has been rising at an…
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Rio 2016: DoS attack made on Swimming Australia website after Mack Horton’s drug remarks
Swimming Australia’s website has been hit by a denial of service (DoS) attack. The ABC has learned the site is operating in an “under attack” mode in the…
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The Hidden Role of DDoS in Ransomware Attacks
Dave Larson offers advice for organisations wishing to protect themselves from the latest types of cyber-extortion Ransom demands and DDoS attacks are now, more than ever, being used…