Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
For the last couple of years, hackers have been exploiting
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What has been tagged the largest DDoS attack ever disclosed slammed into the servers of software development site GitHub at 17:21 UTC last Wednesday. Continue reading World’s largest DDoS attack thwarted in minutes
By Waqas
After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series
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By Uzair Amir
It is a fact that the healthcare industry has been
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A new ransom-based email scam campaign is demanding that all recipients either meet the sender’s demands and pay up or die. On 11 December, Spiceworks user Dave Lass shared the campaign with other members of the professional IT industry network. … Continue reading New Ransom-Based Email Scam Urges Recipients to Pay Up or Die
After ride-hailing service Uber discovered it had been PWNd by outside hackers who obtained the names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers related to some 57 million user accounts globally and the driver’s license numbers of around 600,000 d… Continue reading Data Breach? Uber Has Bigger Problems
By Waqas
On Saturday night an unknown hacker targeted the Sacramento Regional
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Hackers demanded a ransom of approximately $8,000 after they attacked the Sacramento Regional Transit’s (SacRT) computer system. The attack occurred on 18 November, reports The Sacramento Bee, when unknown hackers defaced the public transportatio… Continue reading Hackers Demanded $8K from Sacramento Regional Transit after Attack
The second part of a two-part report by Intermedia deals specifically with ransomware and includes a link to a video which I’m afraid I haven’t watched. There are also some interesting statistics. When a ransom gets paid, who pays it? According to Intermedia, 59% of employees have paid personally, and only 37% of those surveyed said […]
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The following is a Q&A with Daniel Smith, an information security researcher for Radware’s Emergency Response Team. He focuses on security research and risk analysis for network and application based vulnerabilities. Daniel’s research focuses in on Denial-of-Service attacks and includes analysis of malware and botnets. As a white-hat hacker, his expertise in tools and techniques […]
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