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How accepting that your network will get hacked will help you develop a plan to recover faster

As anyone in the network security world will tell you, it is an extremely intense and stressful job to protect the corporate network from ever-evolving security threats. For a security team, a 99 percent success rate is still a complete failure. That one time a hacker, piece of malware, or DDoS attack brings down your organization’s network (or network availability) is all that matters. It’s even more frustrating when you consider that the proverbial ‘bad … More ? The post How accepting that your network will get hacked will help you develop a plan to recover faster appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Week in review: Man in the Cloud attacks, Google GDPR fine, business resilience

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Bug in widespread Wi-Fi chipset firmware can lead to zero-click code execution A vulnerability in the firmware of a Wi-Fi chipset that is widely used in laptops, streaming, gaming and a variety of “smart” devices can be exploited to compromise them without user interaction. Researchers analyze DDoS attacks as coordinated gang activities In a new report, NSFOCUS introduced the IP Chain-Gang concept, … More ? The post Week in review: Man in the Cloud attacks, Google GDPR fine, business resilience appeared first on Help Net Security .

Hackers who DDoSed African telecom and US hospital get long prison sentences

Two men who launched DDoS attacks against a variety of targets have received substantial prison sentences on Friday. Attacks against Liberian telecom 30-year-old Daniel Kaye (aka “BestBuy”), from Egham, Surrey (UK) has been sentenced to spend 2 years and 8 months in prison for DDoS attacks targeting the Liberian telecommunications provider Lonestar MTN in 2015. According to the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), Kaye first used rented botnets and stressor services to attack Lonestar. He … More ? The post Hackers who DDoSed African telecom and US hospital get long prison sentences appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Attackers increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities to enlarge their IoT botnets

Attackers looking to add IoT devices to their botnets are increasingly adding vulnerability exploitation to their attack arsenal, Netscout researchers warn. Instead on just relying on a list of common or default passwords or brute-forcing attacks, they are taking advantage of the fact that IoT devices are rarely updated and manufacturers take a lot of time to push out fixes for known flaws. Currently under exploitation In November 2018, the company detected many exploitation attempts … More ? The post Attackers increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities to enlarge their IoT botnets appeared first on Help Net Security .

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November 2018: Most wanted malware exposed

Check Point has published its latest Global Threat Index for November 2018. The index reveals that the Emotet botnet has entered the Index’s top 10 ranking after researchers saw it spread through several campaigns, including a Thanksgiving-themed campaign. This involved sending malspam emails in the guise of Thanksgiving cards, containing email subjects such as happy “Thanksgiving day wishes”, “Thanksgiving wishes” and “the Thanksgiving day congratulation!” These emails contained malicious attachments, often with file names related … More ? The post November 2018: Most wanted malware exposed appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Old and new OpenSSH backdoors threaten Linux servers

OpenSSH, a suite of networking software that allows secure communications over an unsecured network, is the most common tool for system administrators to manage rented Linux servers. And given that over one-third of public-facing internet servers run Linux, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that threat actors would exploit OpenSSH’s popularity to gain control of them. How severe is the threat? Nearly five years ago, ESET researchers helped to disrupt a 25 thousand-strong botnet of … More ? The post Old and new OpenSSH backdoors threaten Linux servers appeared first on Help Net Security .

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NTT Communications expands its DDoS Protection Services with DPS Max

NTT Communications expanded its DDoS Protection Services (DPS) with the addition of DPS Max. The new solution is the service for Global IP Network (GIN) customers that require protection from DDoS attacks, including attack detection and auto-mitigation capabilities. DDoS attacks can strike at any time, potentially crippling network infrastructure and degrading the performance and reachability of a website or other IP-accessible system. Depending upon the type and severity of an attack, the impact can result … More ? The post NTT Communications expands its DDoS Protection Services with DPS Max appeared first on Help Net Security .

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For recent big data software vulnerabilities, botnets and coin mining are just the beginning

The phrase “with great power comes great responsibility” was excellent advice when Ben Parker said it to his nephew Peter, aka Spiderman. It is even more applicable to any organization using open source software to manage their big data analysis. This is especially true since, in 2018, significant vulnerabilities were identified and disclosed for both Hadoop and Spark, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution via their REST APIs. Many enterprises have adopted big data processing components … More ? The post For recent big data software vulnerabilities, botnets and coin mining are just the beginning appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Cequence Security announces application security platform to stop bot attacks

Cequence Security released Cequence ASP, an application security platform that provides a scalable defense against the growing number of bot attacks affecting today’s hyper-connected organizations. These financially-motivated attacks target externally-facing web and mobile apps, as well as API services that provide connections to other applications across their digital ecosystem. Attack objectives can include account takeover, content scraping, distributed denial of service, and much more. “From a bad actor’s perspective, geo-distributed bot attacks are relatively easy … More ? The post Cequence Security announces application security platform to stop bot attacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

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NTT Security adds botnet infrastructure detection to Managed Security Services

NTT Security has developed a new network analytics technology to detect and defend NTT Group’s Managed Security Services (MSS) customers from attacks launched on botnet infrastructures. The new network flow data analysis uses machine learning and scalable streaming analytics – developed in partnership with NTT Group companies – and pulls data from NTT’s global network infrastructure, which provides visibility into the world’s internet traffic. The enhancement will enable NTT Security to find attacks on customers’ … More ? The post NTT Security adds botnet infrastructure detection to Managed Security Services appeared first on Help Net Security .