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Bit-and-piece DDoS attacks increased 570% in Q2 2020

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Sep

2020

Attackers shifted tactics in Q2 2020, with a 570% increase in bit-and-piece DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year, according to Nexusguard. Perpetrators used bit-and-piece attacks to launch various amplification and elaborate UDP-based attacks to flood target networks with traffic. Analysts witnessed attacks using much smaller sizes—more than 51% of bit-and-piece attacks were […]

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Cyberwarfare predicted to damage the economy in the coming year

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Sep

2020

71% of CISOs believe cyberwarfare is a threat to their organization, and yet 22% admit to not having a strategy in place to mitigate this risk. This is especially alarming during a period of unprecedented global disruption, as 50% of infosec professionals agree that the increase of cyberwarfare will be detrimental to the economy in […]

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Dunkin’ Donuts Will Pay Over Half a Million Dollar Fine After Data Breach Lawsuit

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Sep

2020

Dunkin Donuts has agreed to pay $650,000 as penalty settlement costs for the lawsuit over its failure to respond to credential stuffing attacks that compromised customer accounts between 2015 and 2019. What happened? In early 2015, Dunkin’, franchisor of Dunkin’ Donuts, was repeatedly alerted by its third-party app developer of unauthorized access on customer accounts […]

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Bit-and-piece DDoS attacks increased 570% in Q2 2020

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