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Public health institutions, authorities, and educational institutions can continue to use the service free of charge until the end of the year

New partnership gives VARs access to a patented suite of security solutions including DDoS protection and Bot management

The first six months of 2020 underlined the fact that the consequences of DDoS attacks are no longer solely limited to companies that are attacked. Our timeline highlights incidents where the damage was particularly severe.

Link11 is cautioning hosting providers to beware of a new wave of DDoS blackmail attacks by the Armada Collective. As recently as mid-August, attackers using the name Fancy Bear used DDoS attacks to put pressure on operators of critical infrastructure and financial services.

Fancy Bear extortion emails demand Bitcoin transfers and threaten lengthy, high-volume attacks over 2,000 Gbps, with critical infrastructure providers targeted most

Attacks in April, May and June 2020 more than double compared with Q2 2019, and attacks using public cloud infrastructure increase

The ECJ has declared the Privacy Shield ineffective in its decision called "Schrems II". This means high barriers to data transfers to the USA. Even the standard contractual clauses can now only be used under certain conditions.

Its partnership with Lantech will enable Link11 to achieve even greater growth and provide its customers with local support and administration.

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects web applications by monitoring and filtering HTTP traffic between an application and the Internet. More organizations than ever have a business-critical need to protect one or more web applications. So, it should come as no surprise that web application firewalls have become a staple component of most cybersecurity programs.

The first reflection amplification vectors occurred in 2013 and involved DNS and NTP. Since then, the spectrum of vectors has become far greater. Currently, there are over 20 techniques.