GitHub survives record-breaking DDoS attack that hitchhiked memcached servers
GitHub recently survived the largest-ever recorded distributed denial of service attack in history, experiencing roughly 10 minutes of disruption during
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Nigeria lost about N127 billion to cybercrime in 2017
Dr Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, on Monday 6 November 2017 revealed that Nigeria has lost about N127 billion
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Hackers reusing and improving existing malware
Software developers usually reuse code wherever possible, and hackers are no exception. While we often think of different malware strains
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Kaspersky Lab: DDoS Attacks Are Getting Smarter and More Widespread
Security firm Kaspersky Lab says that distributed denial of service attacks—which overwhelm servers with data requests to take them down—are
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DDoS attacks grew 172% in 2016, and it will increase 2.5-fold to 3.1 million by 2021
Global digital transformation will continue to have a significant impact on the demands and requirements of IP networks, and according
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UK businesses faced 230,000 cyber attacks each in 2016
A new analysis by Beaming reports that the volume of attacks hitting individual company firewalls passed the 1,000 per day
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DNSSEC Deployment 2016 Records Growth
A new report published State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016 there has been steady and strong growth in both the statistics
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UK homes internet access loss blamed on Mirai worm cyber attack
More than 100,000 people in the UK have had their internet access cut after a string of service providers were
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Massive DDoS attack on Dyn causes internet disruption, hacked IOT devices blamed
A major cyberattack affected hundreds of websites, including the New York Times, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify, and eBay. The attack was
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Anonymous Launches White House Petition Saying DDoS Should Be Recognized As A Valid Form Of Protest
Slashdot points out that some members of Anonymous have set up a We the People petition on the White House’s
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