Akamai Sees Largest DDoS Attack Ever Cloudflare says that one of its customers was hit with a 1.44 terabit per second denial of service attack. A second attack topped 500 megabits per second. The used a variety of amplification techniques that required some custom coding on Akamai’s part to control, but the client was able […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SalesForce Gives Users Access To All of Your Company’s Data In what can only be called an Oops, SalesForce deployed a script last Friday that gave users of certain parts of SalesForce access to all of the data that a company had on the system. The good news is that it didn’t show you anyone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reports are coming out that the Trump organization suffered a hack, Bigly, as the President would say, around four years ago and, we assume, did not know about it until a week ago. The only alternative explanation is that they did know about and chose to let the hacker stay inside their network for four […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I generally stay away from politics in this blog, but this item is an interesting intersection of security and politics. And, it is pretty unique. Most non-public sector businesses don’t have to worry about this. While they may or may not let employees use their business email for personal reasons, there are no laws or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]BBC is reporting that several of the Trump hotels point of sale systems likely have been hacked. Trump’s initial response to questions was to decline to comment. Later, after the news of the breach was published, Eric Trump, Donald’s son, said that like “virtually every other company these days” they had been alerted to suspicious […]
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