2016
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Botnet-powered account takeover campaign hit unnamed bank
A single attacker has mounted two massive account takeover (ATO) campaigns against a financial institution and an entertainment company earlier this year, and used a gigantic botnet comprised…
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Muslim Brotherhood’s Website Suffers DDoS Attacks and Data Leak
The official English language website of Muslim Brotherhood movement was forced to go offline after facing massive DDoS attacks! Earlier today, a hacker going by the handle of SkyNetCentral conducted…
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Businesses receive another warning over the threat of DDoS attacks
We have all heard the stories of businesses which have suffered debilitating DDoS attacks and, in some cases, succumbing altogether. Take Code Spaces, the web-based SVN and Git…
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DDoS defenses have been backsliding but starting a turnaround
Distributed denial-of-service attacks have been getting bigger and lasting longer, and for the past few years defenses haven’t kept pace, but that seems to be changing, Gartner analysts…
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Companies suffer an average of 15 DDoS attacks per year
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 A10…
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DNS attacks cost businesses more than $1 million a year
New research has revealed that DNS attacks are costing businesses more than $1 million a year in lost business and service downtime. For years, DNS has silently and…
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Defending against DDoS-Day
It was tax time in Australia, 2014, and one Sydney tax agent, like many others across the country, was all-hands-on-deck as staff took endless calls and filled appointment…
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Flaw in Juniper’s JunOS router software could cause DDoS flood
Juniper has disclosed that that a problem with the Junos router could enable DDoS attacks Juniper has admitted that a vulnerability in IPv6 processing on its Junos router…