In Pictures: Heartbleed, Shellshock, Tor and more - The 13 biggest security stories of 2014
The security of the web itself was tested in unprecedented ways in 2014--but the news isn't all bad.
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Attackers probe Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure customers for weaknesses
Hackers ply every angle possible to turn up a software flaw on desktops and new research shows they’re also looking for unique differences in the way organizations configure services deployed on public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure.
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More companies being hit by repeated DDoS attacks: Akamai
Purveyors of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are continuing to ramp up their game, with a growing number of companies being targeted multiple times and overall volumes of large attacks surging over last year.
David Braue | 10 Jun | Read more
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Australia is the world's second most-attacked Web target: Akamai
Australia continues to punch well above its weight as a target for online attacks, with new figures from content distribution network Akamai putting us second in the world – behind only the United States – as a target for online Web attacks.
David Braue | 22 May | Read more
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Talking ’bout my generation – the next wave of infosec
They say you should never perform with children or animals. Juniper Networks’ CSO Chris Hoff found that out the hard way when he was upstaged by nine year old Reuben Paul. Reuben created a fake website, injected it with a Java exploit and executed a social engineering attack on Hoff at the RSA Conference.
Anthony Caruana | 25 Apr | Read more
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In Pictures: Heartbleed, Shellshock, Tor and more - The 13 biggest security stories of 2014
The security of the web itself was tested in unprecedented ways in 2014--but the news isn't all bad.
