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  2. Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers

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    During two intervals on November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, several of the root name servers received up to 5 million queries per second each, receiving valid queries for a single undisclosed domain name and then a different domain the next day. Source addresses were spread throughout IPv4 space, however these may have been spoofed.

  3. Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a DDoS attack. Note how multiple computers are attacking a single computer. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.

  4. Internet fraud - Wikipedia

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    Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance.

  5. Skimming scams on the rise: Here is how to protect yourself - AOL

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    Look for anything loose, crooked, damaged or scratched. Don't use any reader if you notice anything unusual. Pull at the edges of keypads before entering your PIN, to check for a keypad overlay.

  6. Hackers hijack a wide range of companies' Chrome extensions ...

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    By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the ...

  7. Internet-connected cameras made in China may be used to spy ...

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    Last year, a Chinese hacking and espionage campaign scooped up data on hundreds of thousands of American mobile phone users, likely stealing information from more than 1 million customers, in what ...

  8. DDoS attacks on Dyn - Wikipedia

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    [5] As a DNS provider, Dyn provides to end-users the service of mapping an Internet domain name—when, for instance, entered into a web browser—to its corresponding IP address. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through numerous DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. [6]

  9. Worried about mobile banking security? Follow these best ...

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    A quick notification from your bank about transactions on your account can help you detect potential fraudulent activity. You can then address the matter with your bank in a timely manner.