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DDoS attacks: a perfect smoke screen for APTs and silent data breaches

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Sep

2015

At the beginning of the year, Forbes mentioned a trend of growing #ddos #attacks all over the world. During this year, many security companies have announced a significant increase of DDoS attacks, highlighting growth of their diversity, complexity and quantity. The main resources, usually targeted by the attackers, are web applications or websites. A recent […]

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Cyber predators lurking

27

Nov

2012

They’re stalking, taking advantage of the anonymity offered by the Internet and using the most advanced techniques to deceive their victims. They pose a persistent threat. They are often very patient and have sometimes communicated with their victims over a number of days, weeks, months and sometimes for over a year before they finally arrange […]

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DDoS attacks targeting traditional telecom systems

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Jul

2012

DDoS affects many types of systems. Some have used the term TDoS to refer to DDoS or DoS attacks on telecommunications systems (Telecommunications Denial of Service). This is just another application for a DDoS attack, and was mentioned in 2010 by law enforcement and since discussed on a variety of blogs. Typical motives can be […]

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