2016
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Retail, gaming industries hardest hit with web application and DDoS attacks
Akamai published the Q1 2016 State of the Internet – Security Report, which provides a detailed view of the global cloud security threat landscape and in-depth analysis and…
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Massive DDoS attacks reach record levels as botnets make them cheaper to launch
Nineteen attacks that exceeded 100Gbps were recorded during the first three months of 2016 There were 19 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exceeded 100 Gbps during the first…
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Anonymous DDoS and shutdown London Stock Exchange for two hours
Anonymous hacktivists take down the London Stock Exchange website for more than two hours as part of protest against world’s banks The online hacktivist group, Anonymous reportedly shut…
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Hackers Hit Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest Accounts
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was apparently targeted by a hacking team over the weekend that was able to access his seldom-used Twitter and Pinterest accounts. The…
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BitGo Under DDoS Attack; Wirex Advises Customers Not To Use Platform
Wirex, a bitcoin debit card provider, sent an email to customers today advising them to avoid making transactions on the Wirex platform until it could confirm from thatBitGo services…
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NTP Patches Flaws That Enable DDoS
The network time protocol, at the center of a number of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2014, was updated on Thursday to ntp-4.2.8p8. The latest version includes patches for…
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Russia’s top 3 banks were target of world’s largest DDoS attack
Russia’s three largest Russian banks – VTB, Sberbank and Bank of Moscow – came under a massive DDoS-attack in the fall of 2015, a top manager at VTB…
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Anonymous Announces #OpSilence, Month-Long Attacks on Mainstream Media
Members of the Ghost Squad Hackers team, one of most active Anonymous sub-divisions, have carried out DDoS attacks on CNN and FOX News as part of a new…
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DDoS Attacks via TFTP Protocol Become a Reality After Research Goes Public
Almost three months after researchers from the Edinburgh Napier University published a study on how to carry out reflection DDoS attacks by abusing TFTP servers, Akamai is now…
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How visibility can help detect and counter DDoS attacks
It’s been proven that preventive medical strategies are more cost-effective for treatment and better solutions to support long-term health than reactive medical measures. Anticipating issues and preparing for…