2017
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‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg
Carbanak: It’s not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It’s also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…
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Trump inauguration DDoS protest is ‘illegal’, warn securobods
Whitehouse.gov down? A software engineer is calling on netizens opposed to Donald Trump to visit the Whitehouse.gov site and overload it with traffic tomorrow.…
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2017 may be crisis year for DDoS attacks, warns Deloitte
The proliferation of IoT devices and IoT exploit kits may make 2017 a turning point in DDoS attacks requiring new defence tactics, warns Deloitte Organisations have generally been…
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Can a DDoS attack on Whitehouse.gov be a valid protest?
A software engineer wants to take down the Whitehouse.gov site to oppose Trump’s inauguration When Donald Trump is inaugurated as the U.S. President on Friday, Juan Soberanis intends…
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DDoS prevention as part of a robust I.T. Strategy
A decade ago the idea of loss prevention (LP) had been limited to the idea of theft of merchandise. With the advent of online retailing, retailers have discovered…
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Protest Aims to ‘Take Down’ WhiteHouse.Gov on Inauguration Day
National PR service circulates—then pulls—release highlighting campaign to crash government website BY: Morgan Chalfant January 14, 2017 4:56 am A leading public-relations service blasted and then removed a…
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DDOS attacks intensify in EMEA
Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region witnessed an uptick in the last quarter and are set to intensify in 2017. This…
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Three ways retailers can safeguard against cybercrime
Chinese New Year is always a shopping boom time in town. People are generous in spending on food, decorations, and fashion during the important cultural festival. While retailers…