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Botnets gain 18 infected systems per second

“According to industry estimates, botnets have caused over $9 billion in losses to US victims and over $110 billion in losses globally. Approximately 500 million computers are infected globally each y…

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100+ DDoS events over 100GB/sec reported this year

Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data derived from its ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure. The data shows an unparalleled number of volumetric attacks in the first half of 2014 with over…

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100+ DDoS events over 100GB/sec reported this year

Dispelling the myths behind DDoS attacks

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are quickly becoming the preferred method for cyber attackers to wreak havoc on the internet. With a recent spate of attention grabbing headlines focused o…

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Dispelling the myths behind DDoS attacks

DDoS attacks are becoming more effective

Disruptive cyber-attacks are becoming more effective at breaching security defenses, causing major disruption and sometimes bringing down organizations for whole working days, according to a new globa…

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DDoS attacks are becoming more effective

Drastic decline in vulnerable NTP servers due to Heartbleed?

In light of the escalation of DDoS attacks used as a means of extorting money from online businesses, the news that there has been a significant decrease in vulnerable Network Time Protocol (NTP) serv…

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Drastic decline in vulnerable NTP servers due to Heartbleed?

Five steps towards cyber breach preparation

Earlier this week, Domino’s Pizza became the latest victim of a breach and ransom demand. Recent DDoS attacks on Evernote and Feedly DDoS, along with the efforts of Cryptolocker and other tricks to ex…

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Microsoft patches DoS flaw in its Malware Protection Engine

Microsoft has released an update for its Malware Protection Engine to fix a privately reported security vulnerability that could allow a denial of service if the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine sc…

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Winning the war on web stealth attacks

The “National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2014”, published in May by the UK National Crime Agency, listed DDoS as a major concern for business critical systems for the first ti…

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Winning the war on web stealth attacks

DDoS attacks: Criminals get stealthier

There is a lot of media hype surrounding volumetric style DDoS attacks recently where the focus has been on large Gb/sec attacks, sometimes up to 400 Gb/sec. In reality, these are very rare and these …

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The evolution of an Iranian hacker group

Iran-based hacker groups have traditionally concentrated more on website defacement and DDoS attacks aimed at making a political statement, but as time passes, some of those groups and their attack me…

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