Hackers Attack Feedly When Extortion Attempt Fails

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Mark Melin
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Feedly, the popular news aggregator, has experienced further attacks from hackers after saying it was being extorted. Evernote, another internet-based business, also experienced demands for money from hackers and was hit with a hacker attack when they refused to pay. Feedly attacked by criminal hackers “Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS),” Feedly said in a blog post at 2:04 AM (PST) on June 11. “The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best…

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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.