With help from Eric Geller, Martin Matishak, Darren Samuelsohn and Li Zhou DNS UNDER DURESS — Friday’s massive, multi-part attack on the domain name system provider Dyn brought into stark relief the importance and fragility of the internet’s directory system, heightening fears that highly disruptive DDoS attacks will become more common. The digital assault — […]
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Fighting cybercrime is going to be a never ending battle,(Photo: iStockphoto) October is National Cyber Security Awareness month and a good time to consider what the threats to our cybersecurity are and what we can and should be doing about them. Sometimes it seems like the problems of cybersecurity are overwhelming, but with concerted efforts
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Amazon.com, Inc. (ticker: AMZN) does pretty much everything retail. What started as an online bookseller quickly expanded into other product verticals like electronics, clothing and toys, and eventually morphed into an all-encompassing web store with virtually every legal product you can imagine. AMZN even helped put a few billion-dollar businesses — RadioShack, Borders and Circuit
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On Friday, access to major websites, including twitter, Netflix and the New York Times, was shut down as the result of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack just after 7 a.m. When Twitter couldn’t be reached officials originally thought that Donald Trump was simply sending out too many tweets complaining about media bias following his botched
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The attack on Dyn’s managed DNS services hit sites ranging from CNN to Twitter. Managed DNS provider Dyn was hit by a series of massive DDoS attacks on Friday, October 21, which left several major sites inaccessible for hours, including Box, CNN, HBO Now, PayPal, Pinterest, Reddit, Spotify, Squarespace, Twitter, Weebly, Wired, Wix, Yelp, Zendesk
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In a new report, Nucleus Research identifies which of this year’s hot tech topics — including AI, IoT, security, and supply chains applications — will become even more focused and implementable in 2017. 6 Signs You Need A Multi-Cloud Strategy (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Those enterprises and IT departments that believe they
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Philip K Dick saw the future when he wrote Ubik in ’69, a place in which artificially intelligent infrastructure took control. Today we are building the Internet of Things, and the recent massive DDoS attack in which DVRs and connected cameras made by Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology were subverted to create a giant attack on the
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Thanks to the success of its home assistant software Alexa and the Echo hardware that brings it to life, Amazon, one of the original digital disruptors in retail, is beating tech giants like Google and Apple at their own game these days. In a repeat of its early gains against brick-and-mortar retailers, Amazon astutely recognized the
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Last week, on Friday, a massive disturbed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was made by hackers on Dyn, a company which provides core Internet services to websites like Spotify, Reddit, SoundCloud, and Twitter. This caused slowdown and even outages across various accounts, confusing users around the world. The attack was huge, disrupting some big-name consumer services like
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A coordinated botnet attack effectively choked internet access to a large number of popular sites last week, and the attack itself was made possible in large part due to the spread of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Yet a new survey just released by IT security firm ESET and the National Cyber Security Alliance
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