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Why a massive DDoS attack on a blogger has internet experts worried

30

Sep

2016

Someone on the internet seems very angry with cyber-security blogger Brian Krebs. On 20 September, Krebs’ website was hit with what experts say is the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in public internet history, knocking it offline for days with a furious 600 to 700 Gbps (Gigabits per second) traffic surge.

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Yahoo Reveals Nation State-Borne Data Breach Affecting A Half-Billion Users

23

Sep

2016

But still unconfirmed is whether the newly revealed attack is related to recently dumped Yahoo user credentials in an online cyber-crime forum. The other shoe has dropped – maybe. Nearly two months after signs of a Yahoo data breach surfaced with leaked user credentials in the cyber-crime underground, Yahoo today confirmed that it had suffered […]

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This ATM Hack Sends Cash Spewing

14

Sep

2016

Not for the first time, a Black Hat presentation ended with a compromised ATM spewing cash on stage. This time, the cash was phony, but it certainly made a point. As ATMs have become ubiquitous, so too have attacks that turn these automated tellers into robotic thieves. At the 2016 Black Hat conference, Rapid7’s Senior […]

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