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ABTA was recently hit by a cyber attack as a result of a fault with their hosting company: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39292133. Jake Madders, Director at Hyve Managed Hosting, on the shortcomings of the company in question:
The Dutch voting aid website Kieskompas appeared to be the victim of a DDoS attack yesterday as hackers attempted to take the website offline. The Stemwijzer website was also experiencing problems due to DDOS attacks. Meanwhile, tweets with the hashtag #Naziholland were spread by hundreds of Twitter accounts on Wednesday, including those of the European parliament and singer Caro Emerald. Commenting on this news below is Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at NSFOCUS IB:
Officials in ten states including Vermont, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine and Oklahoma have all reported a security breach which has accessed the information of the states' job seekers. The third party vendor, America’s Joblink Alliance, which operates the Joblink nationwide database has notified the states that the job seeker service had been compromised by malicious software.
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