2017
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DDoS attack size doubles, but 40% are still reported by customers
While the headline record breaking attack size goes up every year, the long tail of average attack size has also doubled in the past year to reach 50…
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Malware Hunter: Find C&C servers for botnets
Recorded Future and Shodan released Malware Hunter, a specialized crawler for security researchers that explores the Internet to find computers acting as remote access trojan (RAT) command and…
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DDoS attacks: $100,000 per hour is at risk during peak revenue generation periods
Neustar and Harris Interactive conducted global, independent research of 1,010 directors, managers, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and other c-suite executives to find out how DDoS attacks affect their organizations…
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The average DDoS attack cost for businesses rises to over $2.5m
Neustar says that the enterprise is finding it more difficult than ever to stem the financial cost of DDoS campaigns. DDoS campaigns are on the rise and the…
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How Shall DDoS Attacks Progress In The Future?
In recent months we have witnessed a rise in new and significantly high-volume distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The venomous nature Mirai botnet Mirai botnet is a…
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Cybercriminals Breached Over a Billion Accounts Last Year
Cybercriminals had a very good year in 2016 — and we all paid the price. These digital bandits became more ambitious and more creative and that resulted in…
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Discovery of 8,800 servers sends warning to Asian cybercriminals
In one of the more curious cybercrime announcements of recent times, Interpol’s Asian centre says it has “identified” 8,800 servers used as command & control (C2) for all…
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How to securely deploy medical devices within a healthcare facility
The risks insecure medical devices pose to patient safety are no longer just theoretical, and compromised electronic health records may haunt patients forever. A surgical robot, pacemaker, or…
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More than 400 DDos attacks identified using new attack vector – LDAP
Hackers use misconfigured LDAP servers – Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) – to provide a means to launch DDoS attacks. More than 400 DDoS attacks taking advantage…
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Mysterious Hajime botnet has pwned 300,000 IoT devices
The Dark Knight of malware’s purpose remains unknown Hajime – the “vigilante” IoT worm that blocks rival botnets – has built up a compromised network of 300,000 malware-compromised…