Jonathan Greig reports: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has been recorded to date. Cloudflare said it detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack earlier this month — making it one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record….
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Hetzner lost customer data and gave 20€ as compensation
Bill Toulas reports: Hetzner Online GmbH, a German cloud services provider, told some customers this week that their data had been irreversibly lost and were provided a 20€ compensation in online credit. Hetzner, which operates several data centers in Germany and Finland, suffered a rare occurrence of multiple hardware failures that have wiped some customers’…
Montgomery County and Florida Women Convicted of Hacking One’s Former Employer and Attempting to Extort Them
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Frances Marie Eddings, 68, of Orlando, FL, and Jude Denis, 54, of Wyncote, PA, were convicted after trial in the Allentown Federal Courthouse of accessing a computer system without authorization for pecuniary gain from a non-profit charity organization. In September 2019, the defendants were charged…
Cops: ‘Ethical Hacker’ Was Anything But
John Johnson reports: Police say a tech expert listed as a “certified ethical hacker” on LinkedIn fell a wee bit short in the ethics department while working with a senior citizen. The Clearwater Police Department says 27-year-old Aaron Daniel Motta robbed nearly $600,000 in cryptocurrency from a customer who hired Motta to set up tech…
Finland hit by cyberattack, airspace breach
Lexi Lonas reports: Finland was hit with cyberattacks and an airspace breach on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was speaking to the Finnish Parliament. The country’s Ministry of Defense tweeted earlier Friday its website was under attack and it would shutter until further notice. A few hours later, after resolving the issue, the department clarified that…
Whitefish School District notifies 1,663 after employee fell for social engineering scam
Whitefish School District in Montana recently reported a data breach they discovered on March 11. An investigation discovered that an employee’s computer had been accessible to an attacker because the employee had fallen for a social engineering scam. As a result, a system containing personal information was open and accessible to the attacker. That system…