2017
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DDoS still the mainstay of Aussie cyber crime
New study finds denial of service still king despite ransomware rise. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are still the tool of choice for cybercriminals targeting Australian organisations…
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8 DDoS Attacks That Made Enterprises Rethink IoT Security
Distributed Denial of Service Disasters The overall frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased in 2016 thanks, in part, to Internet of Things botnets, according to…
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Teenage hacker jailed for masterminding attacks on Sony and Microsoft
Adam Mudd jailed for two years for creating attack-for-hire business responsible for more than 1.7m breaches worldwide. A man has been jailed for two years for setting up…
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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey
20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years’ stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote…
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How can you prepare for a cyber attack?
Keeping your data secure is more important than ever, but it seems like there’s a new wide-scale data breach every other week. In this article, David Mytton discusses…
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Alleged Kelihos botmaster indicted
36-year-old Pyotr Levashov was charged on Friday in the US with one count of causing intentional damage to a protected computer, one count of conspiracy, one count of…
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Linksys Routers Vulnerable to DDoS Attack
Flaws in the routers’ firmware could let hackers access configuration settings and execute remote commands. Linksys said it’s working on a patch. Linksys this week identified several vulnerabilities…
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New DDoS Attacks Use Far Fewer Infected Hosts
Akamai Technologies has identified a new attack method generating extremely large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against educational institutions and other types of organizations but without the…
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Should we worry the general election will be hacked?
“Brexit vote site may have been hacked” warned the headlines last week after a Commons select committee published its report into lessons learned from the EU referendum. The…