Archives for: attack

Europe to have its own public DNS to block illicit traffic

By Host-Tools on 20 Feb 2022 - 03:19 PM

• internet
• dns
• security
• attack

Europe will have a high-availability public DNS resolution service that will offer anti-malware protection and illegal content blocking, to counter the dominance of free non-European services such as Google Public DNS.  DNS resolution is a ...

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Microsoft succeeds in stopping the largest DDoS attack

By Host-Tools on 30 Jan 2022 - 10:47 PM

• security
• attack
• internet
• speed

Bill Gates' company survived and defeated at the end of 2021 a DDoS attack where a traffic of 3.47 terabytes per second was gathered. A number never recorded in the history of attacks of this type. The flood of data designed to knock servers o...

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New payment ransomware and a platform to combat it

By Host-Tools on 21 Dec 2021 - 06:51 PM

• security
• safety
• internet
• attacks

This week saw the unveiling of Ransomwhere , a new collaborative data platform that was born with the intention of being able to track ransomware ransom payments to cybercriminal wallets. Authorities and researchers already aware of it The pl...

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