Cybercriminals Threaten Companies Around the Globe with DDoS Attacks
Various website and cybersecurity administrators received emails over the past few days demanding that they pay one-fifth of a Bitcoin (currently about $780) in exchange for not facing a Distributed Denial of Service attack that would make their sites inaccessible to the public.
To learn more, please see my Inc. article, Cybercriminals Threaten Companies Around the Globe with DDoS Attacks.
Joseph Steinberg is a cybersecurity expert witness and advisor, and a Lecturer on Cybersecurity at Columbia University in NYC. He has led businesses in the information-security industry for over two decades, and has written books ranging from the best-selling Cybersecurity for Dummies to the official study guide for a CISO certification exam. He is one of only a few dozen people worldwide to hold the suite of advanced information security certifications, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, and CSSLP, indicating that he possesses a rare, robust knowledge of information security that is both broad and deep; his information-security-related inventions are cited in well over 500 US patent filings.
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