There is little doubt that the threat of cyber-attack is one of the largest business risks of the current age. Not only have large organisations such as the NHS and Equifax become high profile victims of cyber-attacks, but there is a general increase in cyber threats at all levels of business – over half […]
DDoS attacks
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is when the cyber-criminal uses many unique IP addresses, flooding the target with incoming traffic. The first Denial of Service attack was demonstrated in 1997 during a DEF Con event in Las Vegas, disrupting internet access to the Las Vegas strip for over an hour. The following year […]
Malvertising – the “hidden” threat
The following article is the sixth of a series of articles on Cyber Attacks and focuses on Malvertising Malvertising, also known as malicious advertising, is a scam that takes advantage of online advertising in order to distribute malware to users’ devices with little or no interaction by them; first recorded in early 2008, it has become […]