Not exact matches
Hackers pummeled the code - sharing site's servers with 1.35 terabytes per second of bogus Internet traffic — 15 % stronger than the next
biggest DDoS
attack, which targeted Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company (now owned by Oracle), in late 2016.
In the more public incidences of ransomware
attacks,
hackers haven't tried to go for very
big paydays.
«With the myriad of sophisticated
attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between
hackers and security software vendors, we believe a
big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.
The ransomware
attack on Atlanta's computers isn't the first time
hackers have hobbled a municipal government, but it may be the
biggest attack of its kind.
Look up statistics and you would see that Ebay, Amazon, various banking institutions, and none other than MS, are the
biggest commercial targets for
hackers, and in particular for DDoS
attacks.
Recently,
hacker cabal, Anonymous, threatened to deliver «the
biggest attack you've ever seen» on Sony over their court - case with fellow
hacker, George «Geohot» Hotz.
At this point, a number of so - called
hackers will attempt to take credit for the same
attacks... you know, to prove who has the
biggest wiener.
Buried within the details of the «Night Dragon» report (we won't bore you with the technical aspects) are the graceful steps, a work - of - black - art, which the
hackers used to
attack the
big oil companies in a methodical and progressive manner.
Law firms should take these
attacks against
big oil as a warning — and should bear in mind the FBI's advisory in late 2010 that law firms are increasingly the targets of
hackers.
Biggest Hackers Group Performing Massive Cyber
attack against internet service providers, data centers around the world by compromising Cisco switches.
Biggest Hackers Group Performing Massive Cyber
attack against internet service providers, data centers around the world by compromising...
This year
hackers were able to successfully
attack several
big corporations and government agencies.