Massive increase in DDoS attacks against finance sector, says research

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Prolexic says Q1 2012 has seen more 'attack traffic' than whole of last year

There has been a threefold year-on-year increase in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against financial services companies during the first quarter of 2012, compared with Q...

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