Nov 3, 2016
“As the festive season approaches, don’t be the next distributed denial of service (DDoS) victim,” says Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT. Recent headlines shouted...
Nov 3, 2016
A number of recent articles indicate that illegal technology can easily be purchased that can allow criminals to “steal” biometric information at ATMs. The implication is that biometric technology is not as secure as previously thought. Nothing could be...
Oct 27, 2016
Last week saw a series of DDoS attacks levelled against the DYN DNS. Allison Nixon, director of security research at Flashpoint, unpacks the event. On October 21, 2016, a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Dyn DNS impacted the availability...
Oct 24, 2016
The realm of the internet has changed a lot in the recent years, writes Ondrej Kubovic, ESET IT security specialist. Before, browsing online meant using search engines, looking for specific content or reading your favourite news websites. Nowadays, social networks,...
Oct 19, 2016
Today, hackers are using DDoS as a means to an end, a smokescreen hiding a much more damaging, malicious intent that could see sensitive business data compromised, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks Despite the ever-changing arsenal of today’s...
Oct 18, 2016
The number of cyber attacks being carried out globally is continuously growing, and has seen significant acceleration in the last five years, writes Mark McCallum, chief technology officer of Orange Business Services. A recent study by PwC found that the number of...
