A cyber security firm has predicted that millions of internet users will be blocked for 24 hours from the global network this year. US technology security vendor LogRhythm has a gloomy forecast for 2017, predicting a major cyber attack that could take down the internet for 24 hours and cause financial markets to crash. According to the American security intelligence company all cyber attacks have so far been tests but 2017 will see a major face-off between hackers and the powers that be who wish to dominate and control the internet. RT.com reports: The company’s chief information security officer and vice president James Carder told Business Insider, it won’t just be a technical issue stopping people from uploading their selfies on Instagram. “In 2017, we’re going to see it hit big sometime, somewhere. If the internet goes down, financial markets will tank,” he said. According to Carder, there were all the signs in 2016, with criminals “testing missiles by shooting them into the ocean.“ “We saw the massive DDoS [distributed denial of service] attack against DynDNS just a couple of months ago. That DDoS attack took down sites like Twitter and Spotify for a few hours. We saw a similar [...]
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