Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2021

Technically, a watering hole attack is nothing but a kind of malware attack where hackers inject malicious functions into website codes, that target victims visiting the website for execution. It was also known as Common Internet File System until 2004.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

If you believe the headlines, the first known disruptive cyber attack against the U.S. grid happened on March 5, 2019 when an unidentified actor attacked firewalls at an undisclosed utility that was part of the power grid in California, Utah and Wyoming. Joe Weiss, Applied Control Solutions.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

Firewalls are used to segment or isolate networks and are an essential component to limit cyber threats and protect internal networks from the internet and untrusted networks. Establish firewalls at each Internet connection between the DMZ and the local network. What is a PCI DSS Compliant Firewall?

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. The potentially harmless exercise quickly became a vicious denial of service attack when a bug in the worm’s spreading mechanism leads to computers being infected and reinfected at a rate much faster than he anticipates. .

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last Friday, officials of Army National Guard alerted its current and former members that a data breach might have exposed private information of members since 2004 because files containing personal information was inadvertently transferred to a non-DoD-accredited data center by a contract employee. Army National Guard Struck by Data Breach.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Created in 2004 by the five global payment brands — Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB — the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a security compliance requirement for businesses that handle credit cards. It was created to protect customer and cardholder data from cyber attacks and fraud.

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