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Cybersecurity in Aviation: Rising Threats and Modernization Efforts

SecureWorld News

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more. Airports have also been targeted.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

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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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2000 — Mafiaboy — 15-year-old Michael Calce, aka MafiaBoy, a Canadian high school student, unleashes a DDoS attack on several high-profile commercial websites including Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo! A federal grand jury indicts Albert Gonzalez and two Russian accomplices in 2009. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

In the recent case of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack , the Department of Justice and FBI were able to recover a majority of the crypto-payment made to the DarkSide ransomware group. DDoS: Overwhelming the Network. This functionality makes forging a record in a blockchain ledger extremely difficult at best.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Between high-profile ransomware attacks and mergers, it is a time of high stakes and great change for the industry. But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. Founded: 2009. Microsoft has quietly built up a large security portfolio.

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

ForAllSecure

That would make this denial of service attack roughly twice as powerful as any similar previously recorded DDoS attack at the time. That said, there would not be any DDoS attack, and the targets, say, on the other hand, if you lock the traffic from the c&c server, you might not be infected. terabits per second.

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Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’

Krebs on Security

In a great many ransomware attacks, the criminals who pillage the victim’s network are not the same crooks who gained the initial access to the victim organization. Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day.

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