Kaspersky experts believe that the rise in DDoS attacks can be attributed to the covid-19 pandemic affecting countries worldwide. Cybercriminals find it easier to target home networks instead of taking on enterprise networks
1 min read13 Aug 2020Research firm Akamai's latest online threat report suggests the top three attack vectors in Q1 2017 are SQLi, LFI, and XSS
1 min read31 Aug 2017The Internet of Things, or IoT, devices continue to be a large source of traffic for Distributed Denial of Service attacks, according to a report by Akamai Technologies
3 min read15 Feb 2017Millions of Internet users lost access to some of the world's most popular websites including Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, CNN, Etsy and the New York Timeson Friday as hackers hammered servers with phony traffic until they crashed
5 min read23 Oct 2016Internet infrastructure provider Dyn the outage was due to a cyber attack that affected some websites, mainly for users on the US East Coast
1 min read21 Oct 2016Most of the DDoS attacks in four out of the last five quarters have originated from China.
1 min read6 Jul 2016Users trying to access BBC.com and related websites could only see an error message saying: The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy.
1 min read31 Dec 2015Cyber criminals use DDoS attacks to disrupt sites by bombarding them with traffic from multiple sources, resulting in online service becoming unavailable
1 min read21 Oct 2014Tata Comm designs service to defend cyber attacks
1 min read22 May 2008The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared