CCR Magazine To date, police have generally considered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to be a low-level crime. However, they are now starting to take them much more seriously. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of cloud said: “Having dealt with the National High Tech Crime Unit in the past, now known...
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DDoS attacks now a priority with UK law enforcement, says Cybercrime Unit chieff
Information Age Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are often quite unsophisticated, brute force attempts to disable a website or network by barraging it with traffic, but the damge they can do to victims can be considerable. To date, police have generally considered DDoS attacks to be a 'low level' crime,...
Wheat a moment: Multigrain malware uses DNS to steal POS data
SC Magazine A new variant of malware has been discovered that uses DNS to evade antivirus measures, security researchers have warned. Dubbed Multigrain, the malware is a variant of the NewPoSThings family of malware. It infects Windows processes that process credit card data and collects financial information before sending it off...
DDoS Attacks: A Closer Look, Part 1
Track: Technical Author: Martin Stone, Principal Sales Engineer, NSFOCUS If you've ever seen portrayals of DDoS attacks in TV and movies, they might seem like scary, mysterious attacks, launched by elite hackers, against which there is no protection. Nothing could be farther from the truth. DDoS is one of the...
‘Perfect storm’ of ransomware, malvertising and phishing attacks follow ‘Celebgate’ forum breach
SC Magazine Malwarebytes researchers spotted what they called the “perfect storm” of ransomware, malvertising, phishing attacks, and other malware following the breach of a popular forum dedicated to “Celebgate” leaked nude photos. Vann Abernethy, our field chief technology officer, said users shouldn't rush to pay ransoms if they get infected with ransomware. To...
European Parliament approves new General Data Protection Regulation rules
Continuity Central New EU data protection rules were given their final approval by MEPs on Thursday and the countdown for European-based organizations to manage the compliance risk has started. The European Parliament’s vote ends more than four years of work on a complete overhaul of EU data protection rules. Alex...





