Halloween is coming, so here’s something really scary – a live map showing you Top DDoS attacks happening across the planet.
DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service. The “bad guys” collect a whole slew of computers and processors that they have wrangled control of, and command them all to try and get information from a particular server or website, all at the same time.
This, of course, makes the site either really slow or causes it to crash.
https://www.digitalattackmap.com/
Here is another map that shows unprotected databases that Comparitech has found on the internet.
View it here: https://www.comparitech.com/ransomware-attack-map/
