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...
View ArticleOld-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...
View ArticleHackers 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...
View ArticleDDoS 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...
View ArticleIncapsula 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHacked! 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...
View ArticleWorld 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...
View ArticleGooglebot 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...
View ArticleCyber 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...
View Article‘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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