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Telegram hit by cyberattack, CEO points to HK protests, China
Telegram suffers through a 'powerful' distributed denial of service attack
Cyberattack vs alternative media traced to PH-based attacker
The attacker is Philippine-based, is likely a native Mandarin speaker, and uses the Telegram name 'P4p3r,' says a report by Swedish nonprofit Qurium
Cybersecurity roundup: March 4 to 10, 2018
From massive DDoS attacks to daring heists, here's the cybersecurity news roundup for the week!
World's largest DDoS attack now at 1.7 Tbps
DDoS mitigation service Arbor Networks reports a 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack that took advantage of the same tactic as the GitHub attack
GitHub down only less than 10 minutes after world's largest DDoS attack
The DDoS attack took advantage of unprotected memcached servers meant to speed up networks, using that power to amplify the data sent to GitHub 50 times over
Vera Files reports cyberattack after publishing story critical of Duterte
Ellen Tordesillas of Vera Files says their website went down approximately 30 minutes after a story critical of President Rodrigo Duterte went online on their site
Disgruntled gamer 'likely' behind October U.S. hacking – expert
The hacker who brought down Amazon Twitter and Netflix in October may have held a grudge against the PlayStation network U S media says
Massive cyberattack hits 5 top Russian banks – Kaspersky
Russia s central bank confirms it had identified attacks on a number of large banks describing their intensity as medium and saying they did not disrupt access to banking services
Huge cyber attack disrupts internet in Liberia
The hackers take control of internet of things devices such as CCTV cameras or digital video recorders plugged in to offices and homes worldwide to direct the massive distributed denial of service DDoS attack
Cyber attacks cripple Twitter, Netflix, other websites
3rd UPDATE Waves of attacks have incapacitated a crucial piece of internet infrastructure hampering or outright blocking access to popular online venues
Alleged heads of Israeli DDoS attack service arrested
The two alleged heads of vDOS 18 year olds Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani earn about 600 000 in two years of operating vDOS
Swedish newspaper websites shut down in hacker attack
The attack is extremely dangerous and serious the head of the Swedish Media Publishers Association Jeanette Gustafsdotter tells Swedish news agency TT
Cyber-attacks show PH 'vulnerability' - group
Democracy Net Ph urges the government to take steps to improve cyber security before attacks endanger lives and property
