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Cyberattacks target the education sector

Cyberattacks are on the rise. The pandemic has been the cause of much disruption to our daily lives and our shift in behavior – in response to the crisis – has meant a greater dependency on technology. In our time of uncertainty and adjusting to a ‘new normal’, cybercriminals have exploited our vulnerabilities and intensified […]

Hybrid cyberattacks – A new era of threat

In the ultimate dystopian novel, George Orwell’s “1984”, there is a chilling sentence towards the end of the book which reads, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”  The same can now be […]

DDoS 2024 Attacks Target Europe, Middle East

During the first six months of 2024, DDoS Threat Intelligence Report from NETSCOUT Systems Inc., stated the denial-of-service attacks surged. Application-layer attacks, volumetric attacks rose by 30%, and Europe and the Middle East were under attack. Events take on even greater meaning when framed in context with the current global geopolitical environment, with active conflicts […]