DDoS
Vladimir Putin urges the world to fend off cyber attacks on a collective note
All these days we have seen many nations including the US, UK, and Ukraine alleging that Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin have malicious intentions to launch cyber attacks on developed countries in order to create a political instability in the respective nations which would help the Russian federation emerge as a world leader in […]
News about Bitfinex and Ukraine NATO Cyber Attack
Bitfinex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges has disclosed that it is experiencing a burst of traffic(DDoS Attack) on its trading database and so has decided to shut it down till mid-Tuesday. In an official statement released at 9:39 am ET on Tuesday, the officials of the Bitcoin exchange website said that their trading engine […]
A Synopsis of Cyber Attacks on Chili’s, World Rugby and Danish Rail Network
Cyber Attack News is out that a database owned by Chili’s Restaurant has been compromised and details such as customer’s credit card information have been accessed by hackers. Dallas based Brinker International, which owns Chili’s restaurant chain of nearly 1600 outlets has made it official that some of the customer credit card info and debit […]
Cyber Attack crashes Knox County Election Commission Website
Officials of the Knox County Election Commission Website have officially disclosed that their website crashed on Tuesday night at around 8 pm due to a cyber attack. But also declared that none of the County’s election results were either affected or influenced by the attack. A media update released early on Wednesday says that the […]
Google offers DDoS protection to its Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Customers
Google has launched a new tool named VPC Service Controls for protecting API based services on its Cloud and G-Suite Platforms. The objective of the service is simple to prevent hackers from exfiltrating data from the said platforms. And as far as DDoS attacks are concerned, Google is offering a service named Cloud Armor to […]
Vladimir Putin wins Russian Elections despite Cyber Attack
A DDoS Cyber Attack hit Russia’s Central Election Commission’s (CEC) Information Center on early hours of March 18th, 2018. But the attack was detected and was contained in time by the election commission authorities which then paved way for the smooth progress of Elections which was won by Vladimir Putin consecutively for the 4th time. […]
Business Wire suffering from denial of service attack!
Business Wire, a press release distributor and a business unit of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathway, Inc said on Tuesday that its IT assets were suffering from a denial of service attack from the past one week and so its customers may witness an operational slowdown for a couple of days. The San Francisco based company […]
Latvia E-Health system comes under Cyber Attack from Abroad!
Latvia, a country located on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia said that its new e-health system was on Tuesday afternoon cyber attacked with a sea of medical prescription requests pouring in per second. The cyber attack which can be termed as DDoS was launched in an automated way from more than 20 countries […]
IT teams will have to fight with these 5 Cloud Security Threats in 2018
The year 2018 will witness IT teams of big and small companies fighting with the below specified 5 cloud security threats. And if they fail to do so or ignore them, then it could lead them to big trouble. Lack of Responsibility- Most IT heads are in thinking that if they move their apps and […]
Cyber Attack wrecks the launch of Bitcoin Gold Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin Gold launch was marred by a Cyber Attack which took place on the new crypto currency’s website. The digital currency was supposed to be launched on October 24th,2017, but came under sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyber attack. Bitcoin’s Gold website issued a public statement on Wednesday that its webpage experienced a DDOS […]
