Monthly Archives: April 2018

World’s biggest DDoS-for-hire souk shuttered, masterminds cuffed

Webstresser.org taken down by Europol plod and chums Cops yesterday cuffed IT admins behind the “world’s biggest DDoS marketplace”, webstresser.org, Europol confirmed today.…

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Week in review: New Cybersecurity Framework, Android patching issues, RSA Conference 2018

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: RSA Conference 2018 coverage Check out what you missed at the infosec event of the year. Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some encouraging results showing that the first part of … More ? The post Week in review: New Cybersecurity Framework, Android patching issues, RSA Conference 2018 appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks

Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some encouraging results showing that the first part of that equation can be relatively easily solved. As IoT traffic is often distinct from that of other Internet connected devices and as machine learning has proved promising for identifying malicious Internet traffic, they decided to use these facts to … More ? The post Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm

But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…

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