Will RBS ever learn? Its latest outage was because of a DDoS attack

Sooraj Shah
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Bank suffers yet another IT glitch which left customers unable to access their online banking accounts

The latest Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) IT glitch, which left many of its customers unable to access their online banking accounts, was down to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the fi...

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