The volume, duration and frequency of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks used to flood websites and other systems with junk traffic have significantly increased during the first three months of this year, according to a report ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Mt. Gox, the largest exchange for buying and selling bitcoins, is temporarily shutting down following an uptick in activity on the site sparked by a massive drop in the digital currency's price. The Tokyo-based exchange is suspending ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Trading Price
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS ...
Tags: Bitcoin, DDoS Attack, service
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so went way too far in describing it as creating a slowdown on the Internet itself, says one company monitoring ...
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics ...
Tags: POS malware, computer, net
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS ...
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptographic system, DDoS
DDoS attacks like the one that resulted from an altercation between a Dutch company and Spamhaus this week are on the rise, according to a statement from Kaspersky Labs. The security vendor was responding to the huge DDoS attack that ...
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Are traditional firewalls sufficient to protect against today’s sophisticated attacks? According to F5 Networks Australia and New Zealand channel manager, Chris Zamagias, the answer is a distinct no. “Attacks have become a lot ...
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A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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HP on Monday unveiled its Big Data Security strategy, describing how combining the enterprise search and knowledge management resources from its Autonomy subsidiary with its ArcSight security-event and information management (SIEM) can ...
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According to a new report from Gartner, hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with social engineering tactics to try and infiltrate banks. The report, called Arming Financial and E-Commerce ...
Sony has announced its PlayStation 4 videogames console at a press event in New York today. The fourth iteration of the company's hugely successful gaming platform, the machine confirms many of the rumours that have been running rife ...
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A report by Gartner predicts that the number of sophisticated attacks on e-commerce and financial industries will increase in 2013. According to Gartner, during these incidents attackers will send out targeted commands to the memory of ...
Tags: e-commerce industrie, financial industrie, applications