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Flight Simulator Distributing Malware to Thwart Software Pirates

March 9, 2018 By Tanner Harrison

Angry Gamer Kid

Exposure of personal information on the internet has become an increasingly hot topic for many people over the past few years, especially with how many sites have had exposures of your PII (Personally identifiable information). The most publicized attacks are usually hackers who have broken into company systems to gather information, (such as Equifax). Another type of attack … [Read more...]

Athletes and Hacks – The Olympic Destroyer

March 8, 2018 By Tanner Harrison

Olympic Torch

The Olympics are over, and watching this year’s performance was far from disappointing, all the athletes were incredible, and the ceremonies looked stellar. The events all kicked off at the beginning of February starting with the opening ceremonies, but with a hitch, a large system outage. Before the opening ceremonies, most all the computer systems went down and were … [Read more...]

GitHub DDoS – How Did They Handle the Traffic?

March 2, 2018 By Tanner Harrison

On Wednesday, GitHub survived the largest DDoS attack to date, with the traffic at about 1.3 Tbps (Terabits per second). The previous largest recorded attack took place in 2016 when the Mirai Botnet launched a 1.2 Tbps DDoS against DYN DNS, bringing down their site,  and much of the internet along with it. What caused these most recent attacks? Was this another botnet … [Read more...]

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