Held to ransom
After a spate of DDoS attacks on UK e-tailers, Jack Gilbert investigates what the best responses are and asks whether there's an opportunity here for the channel
"The perception previously was that [DDoS attacks] were someone else's problem, but following the events of last week, we have started to realise that it's becoming everybody's problem." That's according...
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