Hackers force New Zealand stock exchange to halt trading. Again.

A distributed denial-of-service attack may not be sophisticated, but it sure is effective.  That much was made repeatedly clear this week, as the New Zealand stock exchange, NZX, was forced to temporarily halt trading in cash markets twice over two days. At fault, according to two statements from the exchange, were two DDoS attacks. "Yesterday afternoon NZX experienced a volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack from offshore via its network service provider, which impacted NZX network connectivity," read the first Aug. 26 statement.  A second statement, later in the day, made clear that whoever was behind the attack was not going away.  Read more...More about Cybersecurity, New Zealand, Ddos, Tech, and Cybersecurity