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The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 1.44 TBPS (terabytes per second) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Akamai reveals.Lasting for two hours and peaking at 385 MPPS (million packets per second), the assault was the largest Akamai has even seen in terms of BPS, but also stood out from the crowd because of its complexity.

Amnesty International warned Tuesday that contact-tracing technology developed to contain the novel coronavirus threatens users' privacy, highlighting Bahraini, Kuwaiti and Norwegian apps as "among the most dangerous".

A specialized CIA unit that developed hacking tools and cyber weapons didn’t do enough to protect its own operations and wasn't prepared to respond when its secrets were exposed, according to an internal report prepared after the worst data loss in the intelligence agency’s history.

API security startup Salt Security has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Tenaya Capital. With the increasing rate of business transformation, cloud adoption, and remote working, APIs are rapidly becoming the heartbeat of online business; but they cannot be adequately protected by traditional proxy-based security controls.

Wireless carrier T-Mobile on Monday suffered a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers as well, and it ended up being reported as a “massive” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

The website of international retail chain Claire’s was compromised by Macegart hackers for weeks amid an increase in overall online shopping due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sansec reports.

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