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A DDoS attack works by several machines repeatedly flooding servers of a website with excessive requests in a short span of time, such that the servers run out of their allotted bandwidth, and become unresponsive. More recently, Russian hacktivist group "Killnet" has launched DDoS attacks on Romanian government sites.

A DDoS attack works by several machines repeatedly flooding servers of a website with excessive requests in a short span of time, such that the servers run out of their allotted bandwidth, and become unresponsive. Conducting DDoS attacks is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.

More recently, Russian hacktivist group "Killnet" has launched DDoS attacks on Romanian government sites. Conducting DDoS attacks is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions.

Google has expanded its policies to allow doxxing victims to remove more of their personally identifiable information from search engine results starting earlier this week. While people already had the option to request the removal of personal data that could be used in financial fraud, such as credit card and bank account info, before this update, Google now also allows demands to delete contact information.

Nimbuspwn bugs allow attackers to gain root privileges on some Linux machinesMicrosoft has unearthed two security vulnerabilities in the networkd-dispatcher daemon that may be exploited by attackers to gain root on many Linux endpoints, allowing them to deploy backdoors, malware, ransomware, or perform other malicious actions. The 15 most exploited vulnerabilities in 2021In 2021, threat actors aggressively exploited newly disclosed critical software vulnerabilities to hit a broad set of targets worldwide, says the latest advisory published by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.