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, but now Mike Hulett, head of operations at the National Crime Agency’s Cybercrime Unit, has stated that organisations that face these kinds of crimes will be a top priority for law enforcement. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud said, “Having dealt with the National High Tech Crime Unit in the past, now known as the Serious Organised Crime Agency, it was clear that the government was trying its best with limited resources to get the skills and knowledge to begin the cyber fight.” To read the full article, please click here.
