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The study from NexusGuard also found that average attack size decreased, while maximum attack size increased threefold. Image: iStockphoto/ApoevAndrey As part of NexusGuard’s “DDoS Statistical Report for 2021”, it was found that despite the rate of DDoS attacks falling from 2020 to 2021, the number of attacks still outweigh those experienced before the COVID-19 pandemic began, as the total number of DDoS attacks were reduced by 13.3% from 2020 to 2021, according to the DDoS…

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The District of Columbia announced that it sued Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his role in the data breach that allowed political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to target Facebook users during the 2016 US presidential election. The “sweeping investigation” found that Zuckerberg had lax oversight of users and created misleading privacy agreements that resulted in Cambridge Analytica and other third parties obtaining the personal information of 87 million Americans, said DC Attorney General Karl Racine. Racine called…

Fourteen cybersecurity companies have been named finalists in the sixth consecutive Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME.   Cybersecurity SMEs pitched for the opportunity to be crowned UK’s Most Innovative Cyber SME and win one of 14 places to feature in the UK Cyber Innovation Zone at Infosecurity Europe 2022, which will take place at ExCel London, June 21 – 23. The Four judges (Daniel Patefield, head of…

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of May 16, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.  Watch Out! Hackers Begin Exploiting Recent Zyxel Firewalls RCE Vulnerability   The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two security flaws to its Known Exploited…