Rodney Caudle: Changing nature of DDoS attacks

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Rodney Caudle: Changing nature of DDoS attacks

As the recent attacks against the Office of Personnel Management and Census Bureau show, no one is safe from being hacked. But sometimes the goal isn't to steal...

July 29, 2015 8:46 am

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As the recent attacks against the Office of Personnel Management and Census Bureau show, no one is safe from being hacked. But sometimes the goal isn't to steal information. Sometimes it's to disrupt an organization's Web traffic. They're called denial of service attacks. Rodney Caudle is the director of information security at NIC. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more about DDoS attacks, and how common they still are.