The FBI reportedly warned this week that attackers repeatedly attempted to disrupt a state's voter registration and information website with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
The U.K. Labour Party says its systems were hit by a large-scale online attack that disrupted access to some campaigning systems, but led to no breach. The attack report comes amidst the Conservative government's refusal to release a report into alleged Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is investigating a DDoS attack that temporarily blocked access to several of its European and Middle Eastern sites over the weekend.
Recently in the news, websites go down when a service provider has a problem.
Today's successful digital strategies should include a secondary DNS solution capable of providing your company and customers with:
Increased redundancy in the event of an outage
A separate DDoS protection strategy to defeat...
A massive botnet attack earlier this year utilized more than 400,000 connected devices over the course of 13 days, according to researchers at the security firm Imperva.
A distributed denial-of-service attacker who crashed a popular gaming service at Christmas has been sentenced to serve 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson has also been ordered to pay $95,000 in damages to Daybreak Games.
Organizations across all sectors feel the cybersecurity skills gap. But Austin Murphy of CrowdStrike says it's not just skills - it's a capacity gap. He shares insight on how organizations can help bridge these divides.
Traditionally, enterprises have built networks and then added security elements. But in what he describes as "the third generation of security," Fortinet's John Maddison promotes a model of security-driven networking. Hear how this can improve an organization's security posture.
Large attacks are growing as multi-vector exploits increasingly become the norm. In this report, Neustar, Inc. highlights new areas of growth in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks over the past year.
The report affirms that DDoS attacks continue to be an effective means to distract and confuse security...
Forty years after the first DDoS attack, hackers are developing new ways to disrupt network security. DDoS mitigation techniques continue to evolve as attacks continue to grow in size, complexity, and malice. The bad guys, themselves, have evolved, too.
Without a comprehensive security solution, it's not just your...
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly complex and they frequently employ multiple attack types and strategies such as multivector and diversionary attacks against a broad set of targets. Industry reports continue to illustrate that no one organization is safe.
Even though DDoS prevention...
APTs can be particularly harmful to financial service organizations, raising the need for early detection of malicious intruders. This white paper describes three use cases that illustrate how Illusive's technology is helping these organizations stay ahead of advanced attackers.
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Be it public, commercial, or private, cyber threat intelligence comes from many different sources and plays a vital role in an organization's cybersecurity strategy. But threat intelligence by itself is useless unless it can be made actionable.
So once you have that intelligence in hand, how do you enforce it at...
For the first time, members of the secretive "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing group will make a joint public appearance to discuss how they collaborate, sharing a stage in Glasgow, Scotland, during the CyberUK conference. The Five Eyes alliance comprises Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. and U.S.
The government of Ecuador has been hit with millions of "cyberattacks" following its withdrawal of asylum protection for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his arrest by British police last week, an Ecuadorian official says.
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