Business to business (B2B) application programming interfaces (APIs) are helping smooth the flow of data between companies, including businesses and their financial services software as well as between banks and their corporate clients. The value of the technology is evidenced by the vast number of...
Cyberattacks have become so common that criminals don’t even have to launch one in order to get victims to pay up; all they have to do is threaten. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has made a massive resurgence in Q2, particularly Ransom DDoS, or RDoS....
One of the main drivers in the popularity of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks among cybercriminals is the favorable cost-profit ratio. Companies that are targeted by this type of extortion can expect to lose thousands, if not millions of dollars, while the perpetrators of the attack...
The FBI is looking to take down “booter” services, which are hired to take websites offline, and also curb demand with the threat of jail time. Krebs on Security reported on Tuesday (Dec. 13) that the FBI is working with other global law enforcement agencies...
December 14, 2016
The FBI is looking to take down “booter” services, which are hired to take websites offline, and also curb demand with the threat of jail time. Krebs on Security reported on Tuesday (Dec. 13) that the FBI is working with other global law enforcement agencies to crackdown on the number of people that use services […]
October 27, 2016
The investigations into last week’s massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack — which took down major sites, like Spotify, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter and GitHub — have shown that the likely culprit behind...
