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Over the first week of 2016, a handful of important cybersecurity news came in, including those directly and indirectly affecting businesses worldwide.

DDoS attacks are a formidable (and somewhat regular) problem for businesses, but occasionally they appear to be a threat for the entirety of Web. On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1,

Nearly half of companies recently surveyed by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International think they know who to blame for DDoS attacks targeted at them. While it isn’t easy to prove, many think it is competitors orchestrating these attacks.

Any business that has ever encountered a Distributed Denial of Service attack is aware how painful it might be. Aside from a major interruption of all processes involving the Web,

Kaspersky Lab’s quarterly IT Threat Evolution report is in and so is Kaspersky DDoS Intelligence Report for Q3 2015. Let’s take a look into what happened this last quarter.

While the total amount of companies reporting to experience DDOs attacks is more or less stable over recent years, in 2015 there was a slight increase in the number of businesses considering them the most damaging type of cyberincidents.

Infosec digest: exploit kit Neutrino in Wordpress, yet another GitHub DDoS, Wyndham responsible for breach, while Target is not.

Kaspersky Lab has just released its Q2 report on DDoS activities on the Web, showing that this part of the global threat landscape is extremely volatile and permanently evolving.

Throwing away the old junk makes the environment healthier in every possible sense.

Kaspersky Lab security expert Vitaly Kamluk answers our readers’ questions about DDoS and botnets counteractions.

According to a study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, only 37% of the organizations surveyed said they currently have measures in place to protect against DDoS-attacks.

While it would be obvious to say that DDoS attacks are “bad for business”, the threat is often underestimated, overlooked, or neglected. Surveys show less than 40% of companies take