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How to accelerate and access DDoS protection services using GRE

As we entered 2023, the cybersecurity landscape witnessed an increase in sophisticated, high-volume attacks, according to Gcore. The maximum attack power rose from 600 to 800 Gbps. UDP flood attacks were most common and amounted to 52% of total attacks, while SYN flood accounted for 24%. In third place was TCP flood. The most-attacked business sectors are gaming, telecom, and finance. The longest attack duration in Q2/Q3 was seven days, 16 hours, and 22 minutes. … More ? The post How to accelerate and access DDoS protection services using GRE appeared first on Help Net Security .

How do cybercriminals secure cybercrime?

Trend Micro unveiled new insights analyzing the market for underground hosting services and detailing how and where cybercriminals rent the infrastructure that hosts their business. Over the past five years, increased use and abuse of compromised assets has formed a whole new market. There are varied types of underground hosting and associated services used by cybercriminals to operate their businesses, including bulletproof hosting, VPNs, anonymizers, and DDoS protection. Such services could variously be used to … More ? The post How do cybercriminals secure cybercrime? appeared first on Help Net Security .

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IoT is an ecosystem, as secure as its weakest link

Remember when, three years ago, several Mirai botnets hit DNS provider Dyn and caused part of the Internet to be unreachable for most users in North America and Europe? For a moment there it really seemed that IoT security would become an indisputable necessity. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and security professionals and consumers are left trying to minimize the dangers of insecure IoT and industrial IoT devices as best they can. The problem with … More ? The post IoT is an ecosystem, as secure as its weakest link appeared first on Help Net Security .

Countering industrial cyberthreats with secure, standards-based, licensed wireless networks

Over the past few years, cyber threats aimed at a number of critical infrastructure targets have drawn our attention to the security of mission critical networks. These threats have included power grids in Ukraine and Ireland, U.S. energy companies and nuclear power plants, and most recently, at an electric utility on the West Coast where a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack overwhelmed grid network systems with false Web traffic. This was the first documented digital attack … More ? The post Countering industrial cyberthreats with secure, standards-based, licensed wireless networks appeared first on Help Net Security .

Intensifying DDoS attacks: ?Choosing your defensive strategy

One of the biggest misconception regarding DDoS attacks is that they are a once-in-a-lifetime event for organizations, says Josh Shaul, VP of Web Security at Akamai. “Over the last six months, our State of the Internet Report found that companies suffered 41 DDoS attacks on average over the last six months,” he points out. The rise and rise of DDoS attacks As Arbor Networks CTO Darren Anstee recently pointed out, DDoS attacks have become a … More ? The post Intensifying DDoS attacks: ?Choosing your defensive strategy appeared first on Help Net Security .