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DDoS attacks are gaining in frequency, intensity, duration, and complexity, with attackers employing more vectors

Four out of five organisations are increasing cybersecurity budgets for 2022. While half of security decision-makers say the cyber skills gap will significantly impact their 2022 strategy.

The attack, which lasted several hours and traffic had more than 44,000 unique sources, occurred just as NSS was preparing to spin out of Neustar to become a standalone company.

"The latest data indicates that organisations need to remain vigilant, close security gaps, and patrol for potential breaches around the clock.”

Research finds RDDoS attacks are a more significant threat to organisations than ransomware.

One in five companies would consider paying 20% or more of their annual revenue.

"The sheer amount of traffic and potential threats can ensnare resources and impact the ability to introduce greater precision to those key systems."

There was a 154% increase in the number of cyber attacks between 2019 and 2020, with growth in ransom-related DDoS.

With more people shopping online than ever before amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 78% of cybersecurity professionals said they expect to see an increase in DNS-related security threats over the next month.

Those using the Verisign Public DNS will be migrated to Neustar’s infrastructure ‘in a process that will be fully transparent to them’, Neustar states.

"It is more critical than ever that organisations have access to actionable, contextualised, near real-time threat data to power the network and application security tools they use to detect and block malicious actors."

It comes as the security risk profile for organisations around the world increased in large part thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing greater reliance on cloud technology and thrusting digital laggards into quick and unsecured migrations.

The increase in misinformation and fake domains have left organisations perceiving the threat level to be ‘very significant’, with a third planning greater emphasis on their ability to respond in coming months.

Being such an integral part of the internet infrastructure makes DNS a popular target for cyber criminals looking to attack organisational networks and data.

The ‘weaponisation’ of AI was predicted to be one of the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2018. Here's how to prepare.

With the explosion of cyber-security attacks, what is the best way of determining which websites are good and which are bad?

“As part of Neustar’s quest to end the DDoS attack arms race, we have invested to build the largest DDoS mitigation defence network across the globe."

Neustar's Robin Schmitt talks how cyber-criminals are utilising web and application layer security and how to stay one step ahead.

The company believes the DDoS attack rate is going to worsen ‘dramatically’ next year.

The scale of devastation can have a lot to do with how attackers use resources, such as IoT devices, to launch wide-scale attacks.

Results from a recent survey of security executive from across 11 EMEA countries have been released, revealing the effects of attacks like WannaCry.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting larger this year and it’s now a game of risk, according to a new report from Neustar.

“Sophisticated attacks hit companies of all sizes, in all industries."