chang/Getty Images It sounds more like science fiction than reality, but Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reported that approximately three million smart toothbrushes were hijacked by hackers to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. These innocuous bathroom gadgets — transformed into soldiers in a botnet army — allegedly knocked out a Swiss company for several hours, … Read more
chang/Getty Images It sounds more like science fiction than reality, but Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reports that approximately three million smart toothbrushes were hijacked by hackers to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. These innocuous bathroom gadgets — transformed into soldiers in a botnet army — knocked out a Swiss company for several hours, costing … Read more
chang/Getty Images It sounds more like science fiction than reality, but Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reports that approximately three million smart toothbrushes were hijacked by hackers to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. These innocuous bathroom gadgets — transformed into soldiers in a botnet army — knocked out a Swiss company for several hours, costing … Read more
TU IS/Getty Images A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been identified as the cause of an online service outage that affected several public healthcare institutions in Singapore. And the attacks are continuing, according to national healthtech agency Synapxe, which is responsible for the IT operations that support the country’s public healthcare network. This network encompasses … Read more
Monster DDoS attacks hit Google Cloud and other major internet services. Google Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The Google Cloud was hit … Read more
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In early June, complaints started cropping up on Twitter that Outlook was down for as many as 18,000 customers on the peak of what, it seems, was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) assault, based on a narrative in The Related Press (AP) this morning. Microsoft acknowledged the assault in a weblog publish on Friday, providing some … Read more
web infrastructure firm Cloudflare has supplied the free net safety service Undertaking Galileo for practically a decade, giving human rights and public curiosity organizations world wide entry to defenses in opposition to DDoS assaults and different frequent on-line hacking strategies. Greater than 2,271 web sites in 111 nations now use the service, together with 81 … Read more