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Government-targeted DDoS attacks surge over 1,800% in 2021

Nowadays, governments worldwide face the challenge of protecting their cyberspace in addition to their physical borders. Online presence creates an additional attack surface that can be used in coordinated attacks, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to data presented by the Atlas VPN team based on Radware's 2021-2022 report, the volume of…

6 April 2022 Chris Price Cybersecurity

Record 5.4 million DDoS attacks reported in first half 2021, claims report

According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, cybercriminals launched nearly 5.4 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021 — an 11% increase compared to the first half of 2020. More than half (2.8 million) of the attacks utilized compromised computer systems, or in other words, botnet…

29 September 2021 Chris Price News

Implications of DDoS Attacks for Election Security

The threats of cyberattacks against the US electoral process are far from hypothetical. The previous Presidential election showed that cyber threat actors will attempt to use social media to change the course of an election, and additional research into the security of voting machines has demonstrated that they are also vulnerable to a number of…

7 April 20207 April 2020 Tech Digest Correspondent Cybersecurity, News

What caused Labour Party cyber attack?

The Labour Party has experienced a “sophisticated and large-scale cyber attack” on its digital platforms, which was later revealed to be a DDoS attack. DDoS – or distributed denial-of-service – is a well known method for disrupting websites, but is it really that sophisticated? What sort of attack targeted the Labour Party? A Labour source…

12 November 201912 November 2019 Chris Price Cybersecurity, News

Google’s Jigsaw offers free anti-meddling tools ahead of EU elections

Google is giving political organisations in Europe free access to tools that tackle online attacks and disruption ahead of upcoming EU elections in May. The company’s cybersecurity incubator Jigsaw is making its Project Shield system available to campaigns and candidates, amid fears of election meddling. From today, the defence technology is being rolled out to…

29 January 201929 January 2019 Chris Price Google, News

Was the BBC hit by a DDoS attack?

It appears that the disruptions caused to the BBC's iPlayer and website last weekend were possibly due to a DDoS attack. The iPlayer service was out of action over most of the weekend because of problems with the database behind the catch-up service. The faults also meant that only a simplified version of the BBC's…

24 July 201427 July 2021 Stuart BBC, TV, Websites

Feedly hostage crisis enters day 3 with no resolution

Feedly, the RSS reading service, has been under a "DDOS attack" for some time now. Nefarious hackers are bombarding the website's servers, forcing them offline. According to the company's blog the attacker is apparently trying to extort money from…

13 June 2014 James O'Malley Internet

All BBC websites out of order last night, but why?

The BBC's online portfolio experienced an unprecedented outage last night, with all of the broadcaster's websites inaccessible from between 11pm and midnight. Twitter was alight with users complaining about the failure, the biggest outage since the BBC.co.uk homepage went down…

30 March 2011 Gerald Lynch Tech Digest news, Websites

"Anonymous" pro-WikiLeaks web attacks lead to five arrests in UK

The UK's Metropolitan Police service arrested five men today who the belive have been involved in the recent series of pro-WikiLeaks attacks on major web destinations. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said that the arrests are in relation to "recent and…

28 January 2011 Gerald Lynch Tech Digest news, Websites

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