The Million-Dollar Question of Cyber-Risk: Invest Now or Pay Later?

Cybersecurity is often an afterthought. Executives are quick to focus on the endgame benefits of customer-centric strategies, digital transformation, mobility, IoT and cloud computing, yet cybersecurity often falls by the wayside compared to these str… Continue reading The Million-Dollar Question of Cyber-Risk: Invest Now or Pay Later?

Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability

The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software that could have been fatal to the Bitcoin Network, which is usually known as the most hack-proof and secure blockchain.

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Teenage hacker admits making hoax bomb threats against schools and airlines

British police have announced that they have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a series of hoax bomb threats and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. George Duke-Cohan (who goes by online aliases such as “7R1D3N7”, &#82… Continue reading Teenage hacker admits making hoax bomb threats against schools and airlines

19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats

British police have arrested a 19-year-old teen who is an alleged member of Apophis Squad cybercriminal group responsible for making hoax bomb threats to thousands of schools and airlines; and DDoSing ProtonMail and Tutanota secure email services.

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Rate Limiting-A Cure Worse Than the Disease?

Rate limiting is a commonly-used tool to defend against application-layer (L7) DDoS attacks. However, the shortcomings of this approach raises the question of whether the cure is worse than the disease? As more applications transition to web and cloud… Continue reading Rate Limiting-A Cure Worse Than the Disease?

The Evolution of IoT Attacks

What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? IoT is the ever-growing network of physical devices with embedded technologies that connect and exchange data over the internet. If the cloud is considered someone else’s computer, IoT devices can be conside… Continue reading The Evolution of IoT Attacks

IoT, 5G Networks and Cybersecurity – Part 1: The Rise of 5G Networks

Smartphones today have more computing power than the computers that guided the Apollo 11 moon landing. From its original positioning of luxury, mobile devices have become a necessity in numerous societies across the globe. With recent innovations in m… Continue reading IoT, 5G Networks and Cybersecurity – Part 1: The Rise of 5G Networks

DDoS attacks grow more popular, targeted

A new State of the Internet/Security: Web Attack report finds the number of distributed denial of service attacks to be growing, already up 16 percent over all of last year. The report also found that Russia and China are initiating the most crede… Continue reading DDoS attacks grow more popular, targeted