CIOs may not have been focused on cyber security in the past, but that has all changed as once-fanciful threats such as surveillance cameras being hacked and insulin pumps roving to be hackable come to fruition.
David Braue | 10 Oct | Read more
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are rapidly becoming more ferocious than ever, with average DDoS bandwidth reaching 49.24Gbps and 47.4 million packets per second (pps) in the second quarter of this year, new figures suggest.
David Braue | 18 Jul | Read more
Hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with social engineering tactics to try and infiltrate banks during 2013, warns Gartner.
Hamish Barwick | 25 Feb | Read more
WikiLeaks made public thousands of US diplomatic cables on Wednesday hours after its Californian DNS host was ordered to hand to authorities everything it had on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
Enterprise product in the making and ‘loved’ by disbanded hacker group LulzSec. The constant and very real threat of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at headline grabbing “hacker” groups, such as Lulz Security and Anonymous, have helped one tech start-up pick up new business.
The loose-knit confederation of internet activists who organise under the banner "Anonymous" have launched a renewed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) this week as part of "Operation Payback".
Renai LeMay | 29 Sep | Read more