Numericable is a cable TV company operating in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Rex Mundi claimed to have stolen customer data and demanded €22,000 for its return. Numericable declined, and denied that the hackers had the data. Rex Mundi (king of the world) is a hacker group that makes a habit of hacking for extortion. Last […]
In September 2012, six major American banks came under attack by hackers, and customers could not gain access to their accounts or pay bills online. The attacks did not affect customer bank accounts, but the rash of so-called distributed denial-of-service, or DDOS, attacks such as these against major financial institutions have forced them to step […]
Zimbabweans knocked offline and see data wiped because of slew of cyber attacks last week during the elections, TechWeekEurope learns. Cyber Repression: In the weeks leading up to and following Zimbabwe’s election of last Thursday, Zimbabweans were hit by significant Internet-based attacks. In some, they could have just been the victims of collateral damage. In […]
Turkish security researcher claims to have found flaw in system, which has been offline since Thursday as company ‘rebuilds and strengthens’ security around databases Apple says its Developer portal has been hacked and that some information about its 275,000 registered third-party developers who use it may have been stolen. The portal at developer.apple.com had been […]
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Our CTO here at GigeNET, Ameen Pishdadi, was recently interviewed by Net-Security.org. In this interview he discusses the various types of DDoS attacks, tells us who is at risk, tackles information gathering during attacks, lays out the lessons that he’s learned when he mitigated large DDoS attacks, and more. Read the full article on the […]
Attacks on computer systems are on the rise. If a hacker gets into a system and steals credit card numbers, customer data, Social Security numbers, it can be financially devastating for a company. Businesses can lose most of their customers when they no longer trust them with their personal and financial. For this reason, it […]
Due to the increasing number of DDoS attacks, it is vital that businesses implement a diverse number of security measures in order to protect their websites and data from a wide range of security threats. Five ways to protect against DDoS attacks: Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing: Prevention is the key to website security. Vulnerability […]
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become more prevalent and are now considered among the highest types of attacks against a web server. DDoS attacks have resulted in not just taking websites temporarily offline, but also shutting websites down for days. Because of malicious attacks such as Wikileaks ‘Operation Payback,’ more enterprises are taking […]