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World record broken again! DDoS attack exceeds 1.7 terabits per second

World record broken again! DDoS attack exceeds 1.7 terabits per second

Just days after it was revealed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on GitHub had been measured at a record-breaking peak of 1.35 terabits per second, another attack has raced past, and claimed the world record at a mind-blowing 1.7 Tbps.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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HP’s second laptop keylogger in less than a year

The HP laptop keylogger

Researcher Michael Myng was trying to work out how to control the backlight on an HP laptop keyboard. What he found was something rather troubling.

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Exploit Kits Surge Worldwide as Rig EK Climbs to Second Place in Check Point’s ‘Most Wanted’ Malware – Korea IT Times (press release)

Exploit Kits Surge Worldwide as Rig EK Climbs to Second Place in Check Point's 'Most Wanted' Malware
Korea IT Times (press release)
SAN CARLOS, Calif., April 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) has revealed a massive uplift in Exploit Kit usage by cybercriminals worldwide, with Rig reaching second place in the company's March …

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Yahoo Discloses Second Major Hack, More Than 1 Billion Accounts Compromised

Yahoo today announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an unauthorized third party in August of 2013. Information stolen from affected accounts includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers …
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