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Rise of the IoT Botnets
There are many doomsday cyber scenarios that keep security professionals awake at night. Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and current vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, speaking at an event in Washington, D.C., in ... »
Blacknurse Low- Volume DOS Attack Targets Firewalls
A type of denial of service attack relevant in the 1990s has resurfaced with surprising potency against modern-day firewalls. Dubbed a BlackNurse attack, the technique leverages a low-volume Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) -based attack on vulnerable firewalls made by ... »
Protect Your Network from an IoT Device Attack – Like the Recent DDoS Assault on Dyn
On October 21st, waves of crippling Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks left some of the most prominent names on the web struggling to ensure consistent access. Dyn, Inc., a company that provides domain name services for about 6% of Fortune 500 ... »
DDoS attacks growing more complex, larger
Distributed denial of service attacks — long serving as the weapon of choice for low-skill hackers — are getting more complex, with nearly two-thirds involving multiple kinds of attack traffic, according to new figures. If you need a refresher on what a DDos ... »
Anti-DDoS Firm Target of DDoS Attack
Irony- the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, or in this case, a company who falls victim to the very thing they exist to defend against. On March 10, 2016 global DDoS protection company, ... »