February 22, 2017
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Last fall, we saw the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ever. This year we’ll see even bigger ones. According to Akamai‘s latest State of the Internet Security report, here’s what’s behind them. Today’s leading causes of DDoS attacks. … Continue reading
December 28, 2016
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WordFence, the WordPress security plugin company, tells me that unsophisticated brute-force attacks have doubled in the past three weeks. While WordFence can help keep your WordPress instances up and running, your server is still getting mauled. What can you do … Continue reading
July 11, 2001
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Tuesday, May 22, started out as just another day at CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. By day’s end, CERT, widely regarded as the Fort Knox of computer security, would be knocked off the net by a … Continue reading