2016
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Health orgs hit with cyberattacks every month
Healthcare organizations “are in the crosshairs” of cyber attackers, suffering one hack per month over the last year, with about half experiencing an incident involving the loss or…
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Cyber-crooks now prefer ransomware to botnets. Yep, firms are paying up
CryptoWall most prevalent nasty – survey File-encrypting ransomware has eclipsed botnets to become the main threat to enterprises, according to Trend Micro.…
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Trivial path for DDoS amplification attacks found by infosec bods
600,000 servers are vulnerable to this little-known protocol Security researchers have discovered a new vector for DDoS amplification attacks – and it’s quite literally trivial.…
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VIDEO: What is a DDoS attack?
A distributed denial of service (or DDoS) attack is an attempt to take a website offline by overwhelming it with internet traffic.
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Customers of large NZ website company Zeald have been hit by DDoS attack
Customers of a large New Zealand website design company have had their websites shut down due to a cyber attack believed to target one or more of the…
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OPSEC mistakes spill Russian DDoS scum’s payment secrets
$66 a pop, if you’re the sort who pays for these things OPSEC mistakes by a cybercrook have allowed security researchers to estimate the revenue of a Russian…
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F2Pool Suffers from Series of DDoS Attacks
F2Pool, a Chinese mining pool also referred to as Discus Fish, which holds the largest share of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate at 26%, has been experiencing a series of…