A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday slowed down or knocked offline a whole group of major websites, including Twitter, Spotify, Amazon, Reddit, Yelp, Netflix, and The New York Times. The main cause appears to be a coordinated attack on Dyn, a major DNS host (an intermediary sometimes described as an Internet address book) that says…
DetailsOct. 21 — Hackers Oct. 21 temporarily shut down access to websites for internet users along the U.S. East Coast, in what industry professionals say was a coordinated and curiously timed attack on one particular Domain Name Server (DNS) provider. Dyn Inc. reported a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack at around 7:10 a.m. New York time, which left millions…
DetailsIt’s one of the hottest questions circulating among cyberpunks, political junkies, and Facebook opinion-makers. On Wednesday, October 12, 2016, Charlie Rose asked it of John Carlin, the now-former Assistant Attorney General and chief of the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division. “How did we determine that the Russians were behind the hacking of the…
DetailsChina has proposed strengthening its policies on internet safety for children, which could force technology companies to make substantial operational changes to meet the new requirements. The draft rules would require online-game operators to lock out anyone under the age of 18 between midnight and 8 a.m. They would also call for an increased number…
DetailsAs the group chief security officer for Barclays, he has a squad of elite ex-government agents patrolling the company’s digital perimeter. He also has a hefty budget to acquire state-of-the-art technology to protect Britain’s second-biggest bank from cyber attacks. But Oerting, with no small dose of grudging admiration, says his adversaries excel at something that can’t be…
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