2021
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Critical Infrastructure Under Attack
Several recent cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure prove that no open society is immune to attacks by cybercriminals. The recent shutdown of key US energy pipeline marks just…
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Defending against Windows RDP attacks
In 2020, attacks against Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) grew by 768%, according to ESET. But this shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the massive increase in people…
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DDoS attackers stick to their target even if they are unsuccessful
Link11 has released its DDoS report for Q1 2021 which revealed the number of DDoS attacks continued to grow. Between January and March, more than double the number…
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Monero-mining botnet targets orgs through recent MS Exchange vulnerabilities
The recent Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities might have initially been exploited by a government-backed APT group, but cybercriminals soon followed suit, using them to deliver ransomware and grow…
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DDoS attack activity: 10 million-plus attacks and 22% increase in attack frequency
Netscout announced findings from its bi-annual Threat Intelligence Report, punctuated by a record-setting 10,089,687 DDoS attacks observed during 2020. Cybercriminals exploited vulnerabilities exposed by massive internet usage shifts…
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Week in review: PHP supply chain attack, common zero trust traps, hardening CI/CD pipelines
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Attackers tried to insert backdoor into PHP source code The PHP development team has averted…
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DDoS attacks in 2021: What to expect?
We’re only three months into 2021, and Akamai has mitigated 3 out of the 6 largest DDoS attacks they have ever witnessed. Two of these hit the same…
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OpenSSL fixes severe DoS, certificate validation vulnerabilities
Today, the OpenSSL project has issued an advisory for two high-severity vulnerabilities CVE-2021-3449 and CVE-2021-3450 lurking in OpenSSL products. OpenSSL is a commonly used software library for building networking applications…
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Noction Intelligent Routing Platform 3.11 features the remote-triggered blackholing capability
Noction announced the release of the Noction Intelligent Routing Platform 3.11. This version focuses on the new remote-triggered blackholing feature, which allows the redirection of traffic to a…
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5G network slicing vulnerability leaves enterprises exposed to cyberattacks
AdaptiveMobile Security today publicly disclosed details of a major security flaw in the architecture of 5G network slicing and virtualized network functions. The fundamental vulnerability has the potential…