While 47 percent of small businesses suffered at least one cyber attack in the past year, only 35 percent of them took action following a cyber security incident to mitigate…
Tag: DDoS
Army Boss: Transport Infrastructure at Risk of Cyber-Attack
Phil Muncaster The UK’s traffic control and transport systems are the latest piece of critical infrastructure (CNI) experts are warning could be sabotaged by nation state hackers. The comments came…
US senators get digging to find out the truth about FCC DDoS attack
By Shaun Nichols Senate Democrats are pressing government officials to explain their claims on election tampering and cyberattacks. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is heading up a pair of efforts to…
How Sweden is preparing for Russia to hack its election
By Erik Brattberg & Tim Maurer Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Russia has been repeatedly accused of interfering in recent elections. But Sweden is determined it won’t fall victim to…
DDoS Attacks Ebb and Flow After Webstresser Takedown
Kacy Zurkus Shortly after Infosecurity Magazine reported that administrators of the world’s largest DDoS-as-a-service website had been arrested, Link11 wrote a blog post, concluding that “In the short period of time since that date,…
EMEA Ransomware Attacks Soared Last Year
Phil Muncaster Ransomware continued to cause EMEA organizations most problems last year, accounting for over a quarter (29%) of malware detections compared to the global figure of just 7%, according…