'Ferocious' NZX attacker would overwhelm most organisations - expert

'Ferocious' NZX attacker would overwhelm most organisations - expert
Dan Brunskill
Cyber attackers purporting to be responsible for the NZX outages are threatening other New Zealand organisations who would not be able to cope, an information technology expert says. Paul Matthews, chief executive of IT Professionals New Zealand, said there has been a significant upswing in distributed denial of service attack threats since the weekend. He is aware of more than a dozen in the past 24 hours, when usually there would be less than one a week. These threats claim to be from the NZX attackers but may be opportunists just tryin...

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