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It’s time to research new ways to fight DDoS attacks

08

Apr

2015

Almost 1-in-5 (18-percent) of businesses experienced a distributed denial-of-service #attack within a year-long timeframe, according to the Global IT #security Risks Survey 2014—Distributed Denial of Service (#ddos) Attacks from Kaspersky Labs and B2B International. The #data applies to the period from April 2013 to May 2014. The survey’s 3,900 respondents represented very small to very […]

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Cyberwar heats up in the Middle East

07

Apr

2015

Two new #malware campaigns have been spotted in the Middle East, according to reports released this week, one targeting energy companies and the other going after political targets in Israel and Lebanon. Symantec researchers observed a brand-new information-gathering tool, Trojan.Laziok, this January and February, targeting primarily oil, gas and helium companies in the Middle East. […]

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Google cracks down on ad-injecting Chrome extensions

07

Apr

2015

Google has identified and disabled 192 Chrome browser extensions that injected rogue ads into Web pages opened by users without being upfront about it. The company will scan for similar policy violations in future. The action followed a study that the company conducted together with researchers from University of California Berkeley and which found that […]

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