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Funding Daily: Drinks and debt
Caption: Mmm, scotch.Source: Eric Blattberg / VentureBeatAs the VentureBeat New York team celebrated a new arrival with a few glasses of scotch, we spied a pair of debt financings. We are unabashedly...
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Old-guard security co. Imperva buys Skyfence for $60M & 2 other companies to...
Source: wavebreakmedia/ShutterstockPublicly traded data security company Imperva has realized it can’t only provide security services in companies’ on-site data centers. There’s this thing called the...
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Hackers Use Viral Videos to Attack B2B E-Commerce Site
You probably never thought about kittens, zombies and porn in the same breath — and the imagery gets even weirder if you throw the words "B2B e-commerce" into the mix. But everything is possible on...
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DDoS attacks in 2014: Smarter, bigger, faster, stronger
GUEST POSTAbove: This is the best illustration we could find of how a DDoS attack actually works.Image Credit: ShutterstockDistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are evolving at a rapid pace with...
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Incapsula Names the Site Hackers Used in Major DDoS Attack
Go ahead. Go back to your cute cat videos … and, we concede with a grimace, the sex kitten videos, too — if either happens to be your thing. A few weeks ago, we told you how hackers used a novel...
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How Hackers Can Use Facebook, Google to Crash Your Website
Watch your website — and this time, you have bigger threats than viral videos or suspected porn. Hackers can apparently exploit vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google to perform distributed...
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Hacked! Attack of the DDoS Protection Services
Forget about engaging content and brilliant marketing. Neither of those things matter if your website falls victim to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks sabotage corporate...
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World Cup Website Hacked: Is Yours Vulnerable, Too?
Hacktivists have delivered on their promise to take down Brazil’s official World Cup website, effectively disrupting this year’s competition and adding significant weight to their ongoing global...
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Googlebot Imposters Attack, Hack and Spam Your Site
Content producers spend a lot of time worrying about Google’s search algorithms. But maybe it’s time to think less about how frequently Google crawls your site — and more about the potential damage...
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Cyber Criminals in Russia Might Know the Password You Forgot
Is the notion of online security as passé as the illusion of privacy? Maybe. Just this week, we learned that a small group of hackers in Russia amassed a database of 1.2 billion stolen user IDs and...
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‘Lizard Squad’ Targets Sony in New DDoS Attack
Today brought more hacker woes for Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Network in the form of a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a vandal collective known...
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