eSecurity Planet HSBC’s Internet banking services were made unavailable for several hours on January 29, 2016 as the bank’s system came under a DDoS attack, BBC News reports. Dave Martin, security expert and director at NSFOCUS said the disruption to online services can be as damaging as a breach. To...
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Britain’s HSBC Recovers from Massive DDoS Attack
Security Week British bank HSBC has managed to get its Internet and mobile banking systems back online after crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked systems offline on Friday. Dave Martin, security expert and director at NSFOCUS told Security Week that the costs and technical barriers to execute a...
Congress demands Juniper backdoor audits by government agencies
TechTarget Search Security Congressional oversight committee wants to know which U.S. government agencies used firewalls that may have been affected by the recently uncovered Juniper backdoor vulnerability. Stephen Gates, chief research analyst and principal engineer at NSFOCUS IB, said it is in the best interest of all U.S. citizens to...
Anti-DDoS Solution From NSFOCUS Helps Australian Service Provider Micron21 Mitigate Massive Denial of Service Attack
Wall Street Select Our anti-DDoS solution helps Australian service provider Micron21 mitigate massive denial of service attack. The attack – 90 Gbps, is the largest and broadest Micron21 has experienced so far. It started relatively small then rapidly increased over the course of 30 minutes. Our COO, Allan Thompson, said...
HSBC UK online banking operations disrupted by DDoS attack
SC Magazine HSBC UK was the target for a DDoS attack that flooded the financial institution’s systems with manufactured traffic, much to the dismay of online banking customers who were unable to access and manage their accounts. Dave Martin, our security expert and director suggested that HSBC’s servers “were probably...
US fast-food chain Wendy’s investigating possible card data breach
Help Net Security Wendy’s, the popular and widespread US fast-food chain, is investigating a possible payment card data breach. Vann Abernethy, our senior technical expert said that this incident and other like this should serve as a wake-up call for companies, the payment card industry can consumers alike. To read...
