2017
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5 Ways To Profit From The $24 Trillion Cyber War
Business is under attack to the point of all out cyber war, and there is nowhere more lucrative right now than cyberspace, where a $200-billion-plus market is ripe…
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Short, low-volume DDoS attacks pose greatest security and availability threat to businesses
How can your organisation defend against constant DDoS attacks? Think what you can’t see can’t hurt you? A new report from Corero Network Security has shown that, when…
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Are massive cyberattacks the new normal?
When domain name system services supplier Dyn got hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last October, waves of traffic overwhelmed the company’s network and disrupted access to the internet for…
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Building the right defences before the IoT botnets catch you
PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Airbnb, the Sony PlayStation Network – what is the connection? These were some of the sites and services that were disrupted as a result of…
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UK Teen Charged with Running DDoS Booter Service
UK authorities have charged an eighteen-year-old with running a DDoS booter service that was used to launch DDoS attacks on legitimate businesses across the world. According to authorities,…
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The Rise Of Web-Dependent Businesses And The Importance Of Choosing The Right Technology Providers
Small businesses have long been the lifeblood of the U.S. economy, creating more than half of the nation’s jobs, spawning new ideas, generating 54% of U.S. sales and…
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Data-centres and the DDoS risk
It is imperative that cloud users ensure that their vendor(s) of choice can provide the visibility and protection they need. Cloud adoption continues to accelerate as businesses look…
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Ubisoft Servers Hit with DDoS Attack – All Online Titles Affected
It’s been a rough morning for Ubisoft servers, as folks trying to login to Rainbow Six Siege , Ghost Recon Wildlands , For Honor and other popular online…
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Hackers threaten South Korean banks with DDoS attacks following record ransomware payment
The Armada Collective hacking group has issued a ransom demand of approximately $315,000 to seven South Korean banks, threatening to launch distributed denial of service attacks against each of their…
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$1 Million Ransomware Payment Has Spurred New DDoS-for-Bitcoin Attacks
The $1 million ransom payment paid last week by South Korean web hosting company Nayana has sparked new extortion attempts on South Korean companies. According to local media,…