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Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust Announces Distribution of $0.0373 Per Common Unit

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Cash held in reserve will be invested as required by the trust agreement.

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  • Cash held in reserve will be invested as required by the trust agreement.
  • The Trust owns royalty interests in certain oil and natural gas properties in the Colony Granite Wash play in Washita County, Oklahoma.
  • The Trust does not intend, and assumes no obligations, to update any of the statements included in this news release.
  • Further information is available at www.chkgranitewashtrust.com where the Trust routinely posts announcements, updates, investor information and news releases.

Great Plains Communications Introduces Enhanced DDoS Protection, Providing Real-time Threat Protection and Mitigation

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Blair, Nebraska, Aug. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Great Plains Communications (GPC) , a growing Midwestern telecommunications provider, today announced the availability of GPC Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection service for mitigating todays ever-increasing and more sophisticated DDoS attacks.

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  • Blair, Nebraska, Aug. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Great Plains Communications (GPC) , a growing Midwestern telecommunications provider, today announced the availability of GPC Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection service for mitigating todays ever-increasing and more sophisticated DDoS attacks.
  • To meet enterprise network and application cybersecurity requirements, GPC DDoS Protection offers both proactive and on-demand mitigation services, along with network traffic analytics accessible via a web-based customer portal.
  • GPC DDoS Protection provides 24x7 DDoS monitoring and notifications for Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) bandwidth from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps.
  • Great Plains Communications is one of the largest privately-owned telecommunications providers in the Midwest and is headquartered in Blair, Nebraska.

DDoS Threat Landscape Report Reveals a 50% Increase in Peak Attack Traffic

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The report investigates changes in attack vector, size and frequency, and reveals a staggering 50% increase in peak attack traffic compared to 2019, with a jump to 1.18 Terabytes per Second (TBPS) or 887 Mega Packets Per Second (Mpps).

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  • The report investigates changes in attack vector, size and frequency, and reveals a staggering 50% increase in peak attack traffic compared to 2019, with a jump to 1.18 Terabytes per Second (TBPS) or 887 Mega Packets Per Second (Mpps).
  • The "Telia Carrier 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report" , is a snapshot of Telia Carrier's monitoring and mitigation efforts to protect customers across its extensive global network.
  • During the same period, the average size of a DDoS attack was 19 Gbps (23 Mpps), with an average duration of 10 minutes.
  • "The rise of carpet bombing as a popular attack vector and a dramatic increase in peak attack traffic are two important reasons why organizations need to move to automatic threat mitigation techniques," said Jorg Dekker, Head of Internet Services at Telia Carrier.

Corero Strengthens DDoS Protection for the Network Edge and 5G with Latest Software Release

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

"The newest enhancements to SmartWall TDD now make it easier than ever for customers to deliver automatic, real-time DDoS protection.

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  • "The newest enhancements to SmartWall TDD now make it easier than ever for customers to deliver automatic, real-time DDoS protection.
  • Our partnership with Juniper allows both Corero and Juniper to deploy an industry leading DDoS protection solution, leveraging their SDN-enabled MX Series routers and Corero's software intelligence.
  • These software enhancements enable us to deliver leading protection against the growing threat of DDoS."
  • Corero Network Security plc is a global leader in real-time, high-performance, automatic DDoS cyber defense solutions.

Nokia Deepfield global analysis shows most DDoS attacks originate from fewer than 50 hosting companies

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Monday, June 14, 2021

The results trace the origins of most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity (volumetric) attacks to a limited number of internet domains, finding that most global DDoS attacks (by frequency and traffic volume) originate in less than 50 hosting companies and regional providers.

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  • The results trace the origins of most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity (volumetric) attacks to a limited number of internet domains, finding that most global DDoS attacks (by frequency and traffic volume) originate in less than 50 hosting companies and regional providers.
  • As COVID lockdown measures were implemented in 2020, Nokia Deepfield noticed a 40-50% increase in DDoS traffic.
  • The newly enhanced Nokia Deepfield Defender provides fast and accurate DDoS detection and facilitates agile mitigation of volumetric DDoS attacks at the network edge.
  • Nokia Deepfields DDoS traffic analysis is based on a large global sample of service providers, ranging from companies which provide global transit and residential broadband services, to regional providers, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), webscale and hosting companies.

Radware Alert: Fancy Lazarus DDoS Extortion Group is Back with New Campaign Focused on Unprotected Assets Across All Industries

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Monday, June 14, 2021

Less than a year ago, a Ransom DDoS threat actor posing as Fancy Bear" and "Lazarus Group was targeting specific industries such as finance, travel and e-commerce organizations and was blind to whether these organizations had DDoS protection or not.

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  • Less than a year ago, a Ransom DDoS threat actor posing as Fancy Bear" and "Lazarus Group was targeting specific industries such as finance, travel and e-commerce organizations and was blind to whether these organizations had DDoS protection or not.
  • This earlier campaign turned out to be one of the most extensive and longest-running DDoS extortion campaigns in history.
  • Lately, Radware has identified an increase in emergency onboardings from new customers that have had DDoS ransomware threats.
  • In their letters, the extortionists give their victims seven days to buy the Bitcoin and pay the ransom before they start their DDoS attacks.

New Research: Telia Carrier Reveals Spike in Network Security Incidents Driven by COVID-19 Pandemic

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

STOCKHOLM, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new survey from Telia Carrier , almost half (45%) of business leaders claim that their company has experienced more network security incidents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • STOCKHOLM, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new survey from Telia Carrier , almost half (45%) of business leaders claim that their company has experienced more network security incidents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Startlingly, 78% of leaders revealed that they responded to up to 100 network security incidents in the last 12 months.
  • Commenting on these findings, Mattias Fridstrm said: "A comprehensive security solution for enterprises consists of several components, where network security is only one part.
  • To counteract the network security threats, nearly half (45%) of leaders currently mitigate DDoS attacks by using ISP/network provider DDoS protection.

Cyber Attacks Increase 341% During COVID-19, According to Nexusguard Research

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

During the pandemic, cyber attackers targeted industries providing connectivity, services and entertainment to populations forced to shelter-in-place, resulting in a 341% year-over-year increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks according to Nexusguard s Annual Threat Report 2020 .

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  • During the pandemic, cyber attackers targeted industries providing connectivity, services and entertainment to populations forced to shelter-in-place, resulting in a 341% year-over-year increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks according to Nexusguard s Annual Threat Report 2020 .
  • Nexusguard analysts predict that RDDoS attacks will increase 30% in the upcoming year, especially given the popularity of cryptocurrencies.
  • According to Nexusguards research, CSPsespecially ISPscontinue to be impacted by stealthy bit-and-piece attacks, which drip-feed junk traffic across a large IP pool.
  • Founded in 2008, Nexusguard is a leading cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) security solution provider fighting malicious internet attacks.

Nexusguard Unveils Easy-to-Launch Anti-DDoS Capabilities for Communications Service Providers

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Nexusguard , trusted by global communications service providers (CSPs) for protection against DDoS attacks, has announced a new program that empowers CSPs to easily launch anti-DDoS protection for their customers.

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  • Nexusguard , trusted by global communications service providers (CSPs) for protection against DDoS attacks, has announced a new program that empowers CSPs to easily launch anti-DDoS protection for their customers.
  • Nexusguard will provide 10,000 Gbps of DDoS-mitigating hardware to CSPs around the world (100 Gbps each across 100 CSPs).
  • Founded in 2008, Nexusguard is a leading cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) security solution provider fighting malicious internet attacks.
  • Nexusguard also enables communications service providers to deliver DDoS protection solution as a service.

Text Messages Boost Nurses' Well-Being

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

"\nAffirmations included messages like this: "#RNConnect Trust in yourself and believe in your skills.

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  • "\nAffirmations included messages like this: "#RNConnect Trust in yourself and believe in your skills.
  • "\nThe text messaging pilot supports the organization\'s mental health wellbeing initiative.
  • For more information on SlickText, please visit slicktext .com.\nSlickText is the leading text messaging platform.
  • Since 2012, SlickText has turned text messaging into a major competitive advantage for companies.