Earlier this week, it was reported that in 2015 the social media giant Facebook provided access to 50 million of its user's profiles to a UK based data analysis and data mining firm Cambridge Analytica (CA).Since the news broke, Facebook and...
The financial services industry is crucial to the health of the UK economy – accounting for more than a million jobs (double that employed in agriculture, for example) and contributing more than £120 billion in gross value added. The country...
By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to the masses since its proof of concept (PoC) code was recently published online. That exposure would now allow script kiddies to conduct large-scale DDoS attack as if the recent...
Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing the misconfigured Memcached servers to launch massive DDoS attacks. According to the observation of not one or two but three security firms, massive Memcached reflection distributed...
Last week we reported on the world's largest DDoS attack that hit Github website and caused a brief service disruption. The 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack was carried out by exploiting a recently exposed critical vulnerability in unsecured Memcached...
The Pirate Bay is in hot water once again - This time the reason is the Netherlands where authorities have blocked The Pirate Bay resulting in 40% traffic drop.BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy group, reports that a 40% drop in Dutch traffic to the...
After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series of new DDoS attacks and this time they have introduced a new technique for launching DDoS attacks, which is much more devastating than before.According to the findings of IT security...
The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, causing service disruption by forcing its website Github.com to...
On February 9th, 2017, during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics its official website suffered a massive cyber attack causing service disruption. Before that IT security researchers at McAfee reported a new malware...
The Winter Olympics Games Organizing Committee is investigating a cyber attack on the event's Internet and Wi-Fi system. The attack was carried out 45 minutes before the opening ceremony on Friday night in South Korea.According to the...
