/// Tag Archives: denial of service
An Expert’s Insight Into The Mind Of A Hacker
February 01, 2012
Media coverage of large scale hacking incidents, popular fiction and recent movie blockbusters are capturing a wide audience. Growing interest in this genre suggests people...
6 Steps To Protect Your Website From Cybercrime
January 12, 2012
In the 1980s, computer viruses passed around on floppy disks were the main security risks. How things have changed! Now, we have bot nets, adaptive...
Why Don’t Workers Receive Training On IT Security?
January 10, 2012
How do you secure your data? Most would reply that their company has a firewall and antivirus system in place to combat a wide range...
Is A “Defensive Virus” The Best Way To Protect?
January 04, 2012
A report in the Daily Yomiuri suggests that the Japanese government have commissioned Fujitsu Ltd to create a “defensive virus” and that after 3 years...
Top 9 Cyber Security Trends For 2012
December 06, 2011
This blog post offers predictions for the top cyber security trends for 2012. The analysis is designed to help companies shield themselves from the threat...
The silent cyber war
November 11, 2011
There has recently been a lot of news about cyber security, and it is a hot item in Whitehall and at the top levels in...
Security has to evolve to combat the increase in attacks
September 22, 2011
Own the vulnerability; don’t blame the threat, is Gartner’s advice. Fingers have been pointed at China and Russia (amongst others) for some of the recent...
The 10 most common security mistakes
July 28, 2011
Security is now the third pillar of computing – along with energy efficient performance and internet connectivity. If you can avoid these 10 most common...
Lulzsec and Anonymous hackers declare war on Government
June 21, 2011
The hackers LulzSec and Anonymous have come together to launch a new campaign against Government organisations and banks. The main aim is to leak emails...
What the hack is going on?
June 17, 2011
With all the recent news stories of successful hacking attacks of some very prominent organisations, this seems like an entirely reasonable question. The litany of victims...
Sony security fiasco leads to new post of Chief Information Security Officer
May 05, 2011
The ongoing tales of security woe continue, as Sony, still working to recover from a breach of its PlayStation Network (involving loss of information on...
When does an employee’s action become the company’s action?
February 24, 2011
The Information Commissioner’s Office recently dropped its investigation into BT’s disclosure of personal information of 500 customers. An employee of BT sent the information...
DDoS attacks are coming to a network near you
February 24, 2011
There has already been much fallout from the recent massive release of information by the WikiLeaks organisation—including attacks on WikiLeaks itself by those angered by...
Akamai unveils new cloud defense solutions designed to protect enterprises from sophisticated web attacks
February 18, 2011
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud optimization services, today unveiled a new suite of cloud defense solutions aimed at protecting companies...
Can the Government prevent a DDoS attack on one of its systems?
January 19, 2011
On the 8th December 2010 a group of hackers launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks against the Visa and Paypal web servers and also...
