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Cyber security and the online arms race: the battle has just begun – SBS

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For DDoS attacks to be effective, attackers need to generate a high volume of malicious requests which means having a large number of computers at their disposal. Attackers can use computer viruses and other pieces of malicious software (or “malware …
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Spam, spam, spam: Twitter’s arms race (Charles Arthur/Guardian)

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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Spam, spam, spam: Twitter’s arms race  —  Del Harvey’s ‘Trust and Safety’ team is tasked with stopping spam on Twitter.  Is she fighting a losing battle?  —  Biz Stone and Ev Williams discovered pretty quickly that Del Harvey was serious about the task they’d set her of putting a lid on Twitter’s spam problem.

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