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53% of DDoS attacks result in additional compromise

DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organizations, according to Neustar. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to distract as “smokescreens” in concert with other malicious activities that result in additional compromise, such as viruses and ransomware. “Distributed denial-of-service attacks are no longer isolated events limited to large, highly visible, targets. Sophisticated attacks hit companies of all sizes, in all industries,” said Rob … More ?

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SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets

Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…

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No wonder we’re being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?

Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Internet of Things devices are starting to pose a real threat to security for the sensible part of the web, Akamai’s chief security officer Andy Ellis has told The Register .…

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Security man Krebs’ website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet

Internet of Amazingly Insecure Tat? That’s the one The huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which wiped security journalist Brian Krebs’ website from the internet came from a million-device-strong Internet of Things botnet.…

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Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world’s-worst DDoS

600 Gbps traffic flood overwhelmed CDN Google has provided free distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) mitigation services to security publication Krebs on Security , stepping in after Akamai withdrew support.…

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IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia’s census

Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM’s plan, but Big Blue mucked something up Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…

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DDoS attacks: For the hell of it or targeted – how do you see them off?

Cloud-based DDoS defences introduce delays Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can be painful and debilitating. How can you defend against them? Originally, out-of-band or scrubbing-centre DDoS protection was the only show in town, but another approach, inline mitigation, provides a viable and automatic alternative.…

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UDP flood attacks becoming increasingly powerful

When it comes to quantitative indicators, the last quarter can be marked by significant quantitative decline, according to DDoS-GUARD. The number of detected DDoS attacks is 57% lower than in the previous quarter and equals to 12583. But don’t get excited too soon, as the attacks quality, volume and complexity has increased markedly. The maximum volume of malicious traffic for a single UDP flood attack totaled 217.7 Gbps, which is 71% higher than in the … More ?

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DDoS and web application attacks keep escalating

Akamai Technologies released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report, which highlights the cloud security landscape, specifically trends with DDoS and web application attacks, as well as malicious traffic from bots. During May 2016, the number of attacks spiked, fueled by campaigns targeting the gaming industry “While attack sizes are decreasing, we continue to see an uptick in the number of attacks as launch tools grow increasingly pervasive and easy to … More ?

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Business still ill-prepared to handle modern DDoS attacks

In September 1996, New York City’s original ISP, Panix, was hit by a SYN flood denial of service attack that took them offline for several days. At a time when only 20 million Americans were online, this was one of the first high profile examples of the growing importance of network and service availability. It also demonstrated how fragile internet infrastructure was at the time. According to an advisory from Carnegie Melon’s CERT, “There is, … More ?

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