Akamai Wednesday revealed that it’s witnessed the fourth-largest DDoS attack the company has ever encountered, leveraging a widespread and highly exploitable UDP amplification technique known as WS-Discovery (WSD). WSD—a consumer device network discovery and connectivity technology—was seen targeting one of Akamai’s customers in the gaming industry, according to a blog post attributed to Akamai Security […]
Like playing online bingo? You might well find that you’re gambling with more than money if thieves wind up with your personal data. That’s what happened to 65,000 players of online bingo at FoxyBingo.com, which is billed by its owners, Cashcade Ltd., as the U.K.’s top bingo site. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reported […]
Hackers responsible for the massive security breach of Sony’s PlayStation Network that left as much as 100 million users at risk of identity theft used an Amazon-run server to launch the attack, according to “a person with knowledge of the matter,” reports Bloomberg. Rather than hijack Amazon’s server, the hackers allegedly used an alias to […]
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