The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack

DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research DDoS attacks in our CDN to buil… Continue reading The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack

Ping, API, & eSentire – Enterprise Security Weekly #123

    Jeff Man joins Paul to talk about Ping Identity offering advanced API cyber protection, AppDynamics keeps expanding monitoring vision, eSentire announces managed endpoint defense powered by Carbon Black, and Juniper Networks signs a deal with IBMs!… Continue reading Ping, API, & eSentire – Enterprise Security Weekly #123

IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control by sending IPv6 ICMP echo request messages, more commonly known as pings.

Reading the page, you quickly parse the fact that there are three ways to control the tree. First, you can type a message in the box and press send – this …read more

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Ixia, Yubico, Fortinet, and ZeroStack – Enterprise Security Weekly #118

Ixia extends collaboration with ProtectWise, Ping Identity brings in New Customer Identity as a service solution, Fortinet introduces new security automation capabilities on AWS, and Yubico announces YubiHSM 2 integration with AWS IoT Greengrass! Enter… Continue reading Ixia, Yubico, Fortinet, and ZeroStack – Enterprise Security Weekly #118

Measuring Web Latency in the Browser

We’ll go out on a limb and assume that anyone reading these words is probably familiar with the classic ping command. Depending on which operating system you worship the options might be slightly different, but every variation of this simple tool does the same thing: send an ICMP echo request and wait for a response. How long it takes to get a response from the target, if it gets one at all, is shown to the user. This if often the very first step to diagnosing network connectivity issues; if this doesn’t work, there’s an excellent chance the line is …read more

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