US lawmakers have questioned the former head of credit-scoring company Equifax about a cyber attack which may have exposed personal information of more than 145 million people. Richard Smith, who…
Day: October 4, 2017
Pulse-Wave DDoS Attacks Mark a New Tactic in Q2
Tara Seals A new tactic for DDoS is gaining steam: the pulse wave attack. It’s called such due to the traffic pattern it generates—a rapid succession of attack bursts that…
Russian bot-herder and election-fiddling suspect closer to US trial
It’s an international tug-of-war: Russia also wants to extradite Peter Levashov By Richard Chirgwin The 36-year-old Russian accused of herding pump-and-dump spambots will be tried in America, following a decision…
Yahoo 2013 data breach hit 'all three billion accounts'
Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. The company, which was taken over by Verizon earlier…