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68 gov’t websites attacked
Several Philippine government websites have been subjected to various forms of cyberattacks following the release of the ruling on the arbitration case filed by the Philippines against China.…
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CloudFlare probes mystery interception of site traffic across India
Traffic to Pirate Bay and others redirected to AirTel banned URL notice An unknown agency in India, possibly telco Airtel, is quietly capitalising on encryption gaps in sites…
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Mike McNeill’s Diary for Monday, July 11, 2016: Fighting off the DDoS
magnoliareporter.com experienced some technical issues on Friday. Our website is hosted by a service known as TownNews.com , which hosts and provides technical assistance to thousands of media-oriented websites across the country. TownNews.com was hit…
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Ransomware: Can we finally start learning from past mistakes?
There is a phrase I am finding quite relevant lately. It is attributed to the philosopher George Santayana and it goes like this: “Those who cannot remember the…
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DDoS extortion campaigns increasingly target businesses
80 percent of European IT security professionals expect their business to be threatened with a DDoS ransom attack during the next 12 months, according to Corero Network Security.…
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WikiLeaks’ website was taken offline with a DDoS attack amid an ongoing hacker feud.
As a long-time feud between rival hacking groups boiled over, the WikiLeaks website was caught in the crossfire and brought offline by a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 5…
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IoT Devices Are Being Hacked By Lizard Squad To Execute DDoS Attacks
People who have been following the tech news may recall the name Lizard Squad. This hacker collective has been a major pain in the neck for computer users…