Month: April 2024
Wherever there is Internet, there are businesses looking to take advantage of the twenty-first century gold rush: data collection. Cybercrime is no exception. Attackers focus on breaching applications to collect data on Internet users and then monetize that data in darknetAn encrypted network that runs on the Internet, enables users to remain anonymous, and requires…
Read MoreIn the beginning, attackers built their own botnets by scanning the Internet for vulnerable devices and then compromising them with malware that enabled attackers to remotely control the bots. Sadly, attackers don’t even need to build botnets anymore; they can rent DDoS-for-hire botnets from operators who charge very little money for short-term (but effective) attacks.…
Read MoreIdentifying Trends in Recent Cyberattacks Web attacks vary quite a lot—by target, technique, objective, and attacker—which makes it difficult for a system owner to assess the instantaneous risk to their particular combination of systems until they’re attacked. To help defenders anticipate the risks they face, we analyzed several months’ worth of global honeypot traffic from…
Read MoreToday everyone is in Agile mode, but no one more so than the overburdened healthcare industry. We have seen images of doctors and nurses on the front lines, but there are heroic efforts happening behind the scenes too as hospitals and health systems innovate at warp speed to solve new logistical and data challenges. We…
Read MoreF5 Labs F5 Labs IoT Vulnerability Assessment of the Irish IP Address Space Vulnerability assessment of IoT devices in Ireland detailing the biggest threats, most at-risk and highly exposed devices. November 17, 2020 13 min. Source link lol
Read MoreTogether, these three principles form the cornerstone of any organization’s security infrastructure; in fact, they (should) function as goals and objectives for every security program. The CIA triad is so foundational to information security that anytime data is leaked, a system is attacked, a user takes a phishing bait, an account is hijacked, a website…
Read More“Data driven” is the new catchphrase that is taking businesses and all types of industries by storm. In short, to be data driven is to be rad, and for good reason. Data has become the most important commodity in digital transformation efforts because it differentiates facts from opinions. It helps organizations and teams to be…
Read MoreInformation security often takes the form of an arms race, as attackers develop novel ways to use or abuse services on the web to their own benefit, and defenders scramble to adapt to and block these new techniques. Few technologies better exemplify this arms race than the web element known as CAPTCHA. This component is…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, December 8th, 2020, FireEye, a leading cybersecurity firm used by governments and companies for penetration testing and forensic services announced that it had been the target of an attack by nation-state actors “with top-tier offensive capabilities,” and that a suite of tools used by FireEye for penetration testing had been stolen. What do…
Read MoreOne wrinkle in the wide-load trucks-on-the-freeway analogy is that at a certain size, UDP packets are too large to transmit without being broken up. So, while the attacker is successful in significantly amplifying the DNS responses, when the packets reach a certain size, they will get fragmented into smaller ones. Either way, the net result…
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