2020
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DDoS attacks rise in intensity, sophistication and volume
There have been significant shifts in DDoS attack patterns in the first half of 2020, a Neustar report reveals. There has been a 151% increase in the number…
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Product showcase: AppTrana
DDoS Attacks, bots, targeted attacks based on application vulnerabilities, have created a new wave of security challenges. Attackers are constantly targeting internet-connected endpoints and specifically web servers to…
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Sorry we shut you out, says Tutanota: Encrypted email service weathers latest of ongoing DDoS storms
Privacy-conscious biz insists on rolling its own mitigations, though Encrypted email biz Tutanota has apologised for accidentally shutting its own users out while fending off the latest of…
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When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons
Eight DDoS attacks targeted networks, virtual classrooms, say officials A teenager in America has apparently admitted knocking virtual learning classes offline with a string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
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DDoS cyberattacks have skyrocketed this year. Just ask the New Zealand stock exchange
The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) website has gone down again in what appears to be the latest disruption caused by cyber attackers. The NZX website has been…
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DDOS downs New Zealand stock exchange for third consecutive day
So much for NZ as the last refuge of civilisation New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) has closed for a third day thanks to a DDOS attack.…
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Forget your space-age IT security systems. It might just take a $1m bribe and a willing employee to be pwned
Russian charged with trying to bung staffer cash to infect own bosses’ network during DDoS distraction A Russian citizen is accused of flying to America to bribe a…
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New Zealand stock exchange halted by cyber-attack
Relatively simple DDoS attacks knocked trading offline on Tuesday and Wednesday, NZX says.
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New attack vectors make securing virtual companies even more challenging
As organizations are settling into long-term remote working, new attack vectors for opportunistic cyberattackers—and new challenges for network administrators have been introduced, Nuspire reveals. Now six months into…
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Week in review: Kali Linux 2020.3, mobile security threats, ISO certs at risk of lapsing
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Updated cryptojacking worm steals AWS credentials A malicious cryptocurrency miner and DDoS worm that has…