The role of application programming interfaces (APIs) in banking and B2B payments has grown progressively larger over recent years, especially overseas. The United Kingdom has more than 200 providers developing APIs, for example, and these developers made 200 million requests for bank data via APIs...
Businesses depend on application programming interfaces (APIs) to ensure information flows smoothly between internal programs and software and third-party services. The technology’s significance cannot be ignored, as a 2018 survey found that each company manages an average of 363 APIs. These solutions can spare departments...
Messaging app Telegram said on Thursday (June 13) that it was the victim of a DDOS cyberattack from China, according to a report by the Associated Press. The attack slowed data on the service, but it didn’t steal or expose any user data. It happened...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) perpetrated against an energy company caused “interruptions of electrical system operations,” according to a report. The “cyber event” occurred on March 5 and lasted almost 10 hours. The DOE said the attack...
September 28, 2018
Sending a payment looks easy from the front end — so easy, in fact, that it can be hard to believe how complicated something like moving funds electronically from a customer to a merchant can really be at the back end. Among other things, being in the middle of those payment flows means a firm must comply with […]
June 13, 2019
Messaging app Telegram said on Thursday (June 13) that it was the victim of a DDOS cyberattack from China, according to a report by the Associated Press. The attack slowed data on the service, but it didn’t steal or expose any user data. It happened during protests at the Hong Kong government headquarters; protesters were […]
May 02, 2019
The Department of Energy (DOE) has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) perpetrated against an energy company caused “interruptions of electrical system operations,” according to a report. The “cyber...
January 11, 2019
A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for a cyberattack that disrupted Boston Children’s Hospital‘s network for two weeks. Reuters reported that 34-year-old Martin Gottesfeld carried...
July 25, 2018
A new report from Kaspersky Lab shows an increase in botnet-assisted DDoS attacks, including the recurrence of old vulnerabilities and the rise in gaming and cryptocurrency as targets. The Q2 2018...
