Imagine that all of the databases associated with your website were suddenly taken offline.
Your customer lists, product information, user credentials, and all the rest of your data, were all suddenly unavailable.
Extortion is a common form of monetizing a web attack — but the cost to the victim can be far higher than the financial price alone.
A previous blog post discussed data-encryption blackmail and ransom attempts on websites. Yesterday, a…
State-sponsored Chinese hackers have broken into US government networks again.
Last year, Chinese hackers broke into the computer system of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Their target: the files of tens of…