2018
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Hackers behind Mirai botnet could be sentenced to working for the FBI
This comes after more than 18 months of already helping the FBI stop cyberattacks Three young hackers went from believing they were “untouchable” to helping the FBI stop…
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US Signal partners with Cloudflare to deliver DDoS protection service
US Signal announced that it has partnered with Cloudflare to bring a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection service to market. The new service delivers DDoS mitigation for network, transport…
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Hackers behind Mirai botnet could be sentenced to working for the FBIThis comes after more than 18 months of already helping the FBI stop cyberattacks…
This comes after more than 18 months of already helping the FBI stop cyberattacks Three young hackers went from believing they were “untouchable” to helping the FBI stop…
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What Feds Can Do to Guard Against DDoS Attacks and the Botnet Threat
In October 2016, the Mirai botnet took down domain name system provider Dyn, waking much of the world up to the fact that Internet of Things devices could…
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Who’s hacking into UK unis? Spies, research-nickers… or rival gamers living in res hall?
Report fingers students and staff for academic cyber-attacks Who’s hacking into university systems? Here’s a clue from the UK higher education tech crew at Jisc: the attacks drop…
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DDoS attacks: Students blamed for many university cyber attacks
DDoS attacks against university campuses are more likely in term time. Nation-states and criminal gangs often get the blame for cyber attacks against universities, but a new analysis…
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How to train your network: the role of artificial intelligence in network operations
With the help of machine learning and AI, software-defined networks could soon aid businesses with network management. A network that can fix and optimize itself without human intervention…
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DDoS Attacks Increase in Size by 500%
According to the Q2 2018 Threat Report , Nexusguard ’s quarterly report, the average distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack grew to more than 26Gbps, increasing in size by 500%.…
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Edinburgh Uni Hit by Major Cyber-Attack
The website of Edinburgh University was still down at the time of writing after the institution suffered a major cyber-attack during its Freshers’ Week. A university spokesman told…