Days after staring down a ransom request from computer hackers, Feedly is subject to a third day of distributed denial of service request attacks. Feedly denied paying “protection money” to hackers The Feedly story is a modern day version of the old mafia version of the corner store shakedown. Feedly was requested to provide protection money to ensure a preverbal fire didn’t somehow ignite by “accident.” Feedly said no and “no means no.” What is occurring now is the public violation of Feedly by a bully that wouldn’t take no for an answer. The event, as ValueWalk reported, became public…
Hacker Attack on Feedly Continues
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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