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More Than One Billion Records Containing Personally Identifiable Information Leaked in 2014: Report

The number of records with personally identifiable information leaked reached over a billion in 2014 after a drastic increase in reported vulnerabilities in Q4, according to the latest threat report by IBM X-Force. Continue reading

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Black Lotus Identifies DDoS Attack Trends in New Report

The Distributed Denial of Service landscape is significantly changing, according to the January threat report (PDF) from DDoS mitigation provider Black Lotus. Some of the key trends reported include: “Distributed reflection Denial of Service” (or DrDoS) enabling massive attacks exceeding 100 gigabits per second; attacks targeting infrastructure rather than applications directly; and DDoS attacks from mobile devices (or mDDoS) now reaching significant levels. Continue reading

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