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Citrix is warning its customers that attackers are taking advantage of the company s ADC products to conduct and amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a notification published by the firm.
In the warning, Citrix notes that these attacks are affecting a limited number of customers as of now. And while there is no known vulnerability at this point, the company is working on a permeant fix for its ADC products that won t be available until mid-January, according to the alert. Citrix is monitoring these events and is continuing to investigate the impact they pose on Citrix ADC, the alert says. At this time, the scope of attack is limited to a small number of customers around the world, and further, there are no known Citrix vulnerabilities associated with this event.
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Experienced Verifone, banking executive appointed CIO at the NZX
Robert Douglas will lead a programme of increased ICT investment Credit: NZX
In the wake of announcing increased investment in its IT systems and capabilities yesterday, the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) has also found a new chief information officer.
Robert Douglas will replace long-serving CIO David Godfrey, who resigned after massive denial of service attacks restricted the market s ability to trade over several days in August.
The year s biggest cyber security stories
Bears, scares and ransomware
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Well, what a year it s been. 2020 kicked off as it meant to go on, with news emerging from China of a new virus which lead to a swiftly imposed lockdown in the city of Wuhan. Looks grim, we thought, but it will probably peter out like previous viruses before it. How wrong we were.
Here s a look back at the last 12 months as covered under
Computing s Security tag.
January
Travelex s 2020 got off to a bad start, with a ransomware attack on New Years eve. Not that they admitted that, instead choosing the well-trodden deny, distract and cover up route, and failing to notify the ICO in the process.