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The latest news, views and education about distributed-denial-of-service attacks. New, sophisticated DDoS attacks have increased throughout the world, and security experts predict this trend will continue. Use this DDoS Resource Center for the latest information on detection, mitigation, incident response and ongoing risk management.

Crimediggers is an online game created by Dutch police to encourage young adults to pursue ethical hacking.

Dutch Cyber Cops Tell Stresser/Booter Customers: Cut It Out

Mathew J. Schwartz • October 13, 2021

Dutch cybercrime police have a message for almost 30 users of an on-demand distributed denial-of-service site: We see what you're doing; now cut it out or we're going to arrest you. And not for the first time, the move shows police in Europe emphasizing ethical hacking pursuits instead for young adults.

DDoS Protection

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Application Security & Online Fraud

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Cybercrime

Illinois Man Convicted of Running DDoS Facilitation Websites

Prajeet Nair • September 19, 2021

An Illinois man has been found guilty of running subscription-based distributed denial-of-service attacks that enabled customers to launch DDoS strikes of their own. He is now facing a statutory maximum sentence of 35 years in federal prison when sentenced in January 2022.

Establishing Cybersecurity in the Era of Resilience

Geetha Nandikotkur • September 23, 2021

CyberEdBoard Executive Member Dr. Deepak Kumar gives the keynote speech at ISMG Virtual Cybersecurity Summit Asia: Financial Services. The session addresses how banking and financial services organizations can take steps to invest in operational speed, drive value from new investments, enhance their training and...

Work from Everywhere, Securely

Geetha Nandikotkur • September 23, 2021

CyberEdBoard Executive Member Charmaine Valmonte speaks at the ISMG Virtual Cybersecurity Summit Asia: Financial Services. Topics include our new realities and emerging technologies, why we need a cybersecurity maturity model, and the importance of identity management and governance.

Business Resilience Through ‘Zero Trust’

Geetha Nandikotkur • September 23, 2021

CyberEdBoard member Maria Filomena Gibe speaks on a panel at ISMG Virtual Cybersecurity Summit Asia: Financial Services. The panel discusses: • How "zero trust" has made security a business enabler; • Building a multifactor authentication model based on zero trust; • Building a zero trust framework aligned...

Global Compliance

How to Keep Cybercrime's Foot off the Pedal with the Auto Industry and ISO/SAE 21434

Information Security Media Group • September 21, 2021

With automotive standard ISO 21434 just around the corner, this tutorial focuses on how it will form a key protective component against the cyber threats facing automation software developers.

Governance & Risk Management

WHEO Foundational Concept: Threat Intelligence Sharing to Drive Predictive Security

• September 15, 2021

Thought leadership is crucial within the threat intelligence sharing community and developing technologies that easily share and use threat intelligence, as a nation we can help agencies identify and stop attacks aggressively and quickly. During the podcast, you can anticipate a healthy discussion on: The value of...

Critical Infrastructure Security

2 UK Telecom Firms Under DDoS Attacks

Rashmi Ramesh • September 3, 2021

Voip Unlimited and Voipfone, two Voice over Internet Protocol-based telecom companies in the U.K., report being victims of ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services.

Critical Infrastructure Security

Exposing Software Supply Chain Risks

Tom Field • August 24, 2021

Tomislav Pericin, Co-founder and Chief Software Architect for ReversingLabs, discusses the evolution of supply chain attack sophistication, and why both software builders and buyers need to change how they defend against attack surface area risks.

Finance & Banking

A Unified Look at FinCrime

Robert Harris • August 24, 2021

Banks are looking to drive synergies between fraud, cyber and compliance functions to tackle FinCrime hurdles.

Finance & Banking

Financial Service versus Fraud – the Battle Continues

Simon Viney • August 24, 2021

Despite these financial headwinds, new ways are emerging for FIs to differentiate on the quality of fraud prevention and outreach they can provide to customers.

Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Utilizing Data Opportunities and Risks in Insurance to Protect Customers and Drive Greater Differentiation

Robert Harris • August 24, 2021

Greater data-sharing opportunities and collaboration makes it easier to identify and understand good customers, not just the bad.

Cybercrime

Record-Setting DDoS Attack Hits Financial Service Firm

Prajeet Nair • August 21, 2021

Security firm Cloudflare says it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack, almost three times larger than any previously reported HTTP DDoS attack.