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The healthcare sector consists of a wide number of segments: payers, such as insurance companies; providers such as hospitals and doctors; and manufacturers, both pharmaceutical as well as medical device and equipment. Because the industry deals with … Continue reading Healthcare & Web Application Security: A Prescriptive Look at Application-Layer Security Risks
The following is a Q&A with Ron Winward. Ron is a Security Evangelist for Radware, where he helps execute the company’s thought leadership on today’s security threat landscape. Ron brings nearly 20 years of experience in the internet service provider space, most recently as Director of Network Engineering for a global infrastructure and colocation provider. […]
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The following is a Q&A with Daniel Smith, an information security researcher for Radware’s Emergency Response Team. He focuses on security research and risk analysis for network and application based vulnerabilities. Daniel’s research focuses in on Denial-of-Service attacks and includes analysis of malware and botnets. As a white-hat hacker, his expertise in tools and techniques […]
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Since the first Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack was launched in 1974, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have remained among the most persistent and damaging cyber-attacks. Let’s examine how these attacks have evolved and how your company can mitigate them: DDoS in Review A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack targeting the availability of network resources and applications. […]
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Yes, you read that right. When asked how easy they thought it would be for a student in grades 1-6 to hack a school, 15 percent of respondents said it was either somewhat easy (6 percent) or very easy (9 percent). The numbers rise with age. Some 57 percent think a high school student could […]
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Privacy or profit, that is the question. For C-suite executives around the world, striking a balance between safeguarding their organization’s data and meeting government regulations without adversely affecting day-to-day operations has always been a careful balancing act. In light of recent high-profile cyber-attacks in 2016 and 2017 and changing government policies regarding data privacy and […]
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By now you have probably heard about Brickerbot, Hajime, and the growing problem of Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. This round-up will provide you with a number of comprehensive resources to bring you up to speed. “BrickerBot” Results In PDoS Attack On April 5th, Radware’s Pascal Geenens released the results of his research over a […]
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Happy Near Year! Another year has come and gone in the blink of an eye. 2016 brought with it several interesting threats and attacks in the cyber-security space, among them the largest DDoS attack in history, the enslavement of Internet of Things (IoT) devices by botnets, the rise of cyber ransom and more – all […]
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There has been much talk in 2016 about the Darknet, a dangerous place where illicit or underground activities are conducted and consisting of many digital marketplaces where items can be bought or sold for cryptocurrencies. It sounds like the stuff of crime novels, and in a way, it is – commodities like drugs, guns, and […]
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Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you probably heard about a number of Internet of Things (IoT) attacks this fall, beginning with KrebsOnSecurity, then OVH, then the DDoS attack on Dyn DNS. All of this started with a bot called Mirai, and involved IoT devices. Why is this important? By 2020, it […]
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