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Webroot welcomes Mike Potts as the new Chief Executive Officer
Potts’ technology industry experience spans the application and security sectors, and he will lead both Webroot’s strategic direction and its day-to-day operations. He most recently served as an integration executive in the security business group at Cisco, following the acquisition of Lancope in 2015.
You can read more about his focus for the first few months on our Blog.
Listen to Mike's first message to the Community.
Breach at Sonic Drive-In May Have Impacted Millions of Credit, Debit Cards
First, it was Wendy's. Now our favorite Drive-In Sonic has some major cleaning up to do.
Christi Woodworth, vice president of public relations at Sonic, said the investigation is still in its early stages, and the company does not yet know how many or which of its stores may be impacted.
Krebs has the full scoop.
Hackers launched 20 million attacks in just a day in new 'aggressive' campaign
A new variant of the Locky Ransomware is starting a large-scale attack on Vietnam, India, Columbia, Greece, and Turkey.
Researchers have identified around 6,000 "fingerprints" hinting that the attacks are being automatically generated.
The attacks were initially launched via a generic email. However, later, the hackers disguised the emails as purporting to be from "Herbalife." Researchers have identified around 6,000 "fingerprints" hinting that the attacks are being automatically generated.
Read the full story from IBTimes.
Large DDoS attacks over 50 Gbps have quadrupled between 2015 and 2017
Even as DDoS attacks are increasingly impacting other areas of the stack such as the application layer, attacks at the network layer are still the most prevalent, with 29% of respondents encountering attacks at the network level.
However, DDoS solutions are rising to the challenge, with improved attack mitigation and remediation solutions shrinking the amount of downtime. As DDoS attacks take place, the downtime for organizations has shifted from increments of days to hours. The survey found that in 2017, only 15% of attacks resulted in greater than 25 hours of downtime, compared to 29% in 2015.
Make sure you have Webroot's Multi-Vector Protection on your side!
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