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DDoS Myths: Blackholing and Outsourcing Won’t Stop Everything

eSecurity Planet

Gone are the days when you could get away with doing nothing to prepare for DDoS attacks. With the cost of DDoS attacks falling and their frequency and sophistication growing, even organizations that think their profile is too low to worry about DDoS can still become victims. However, there are limitations to this strategy.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them

eSecurity Planet

Hackers can spread malware via IoT networks, disrupt supply chains in development, and use a fleet of routers as an IoT botnet to launch a DDoS attack. Also Read: Cloudflare Fended Off Mirai Botnet DDoS Attack. To be successful, an attacker must gain access to the 5G Service Based Architecture. 5G Systems Architecture.

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Combatting ransomware: a holistic approach

IT Security Guru

The necessarily rapid pace of change left IT departments with precious little time to fully consider new security architectures and the shifting threat landscape, now dominated by ransomware and DDoS. Contributed by Nicolas Casimir, CISO, Zscaler EMEA.

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My 2020 Predictions Revisited: What Worked, What Didn't

Duo's Security Blog

The classic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tactic is still in use. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) made significant strides as one way of determining trust in a zero-trust architecture. As one CISO shared with me, “Our crisis response and subsequent focus on securing productivity pushed new initiatives to 2021.”

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AT&T Business Summit is virtual Oct. 27-28 and free!

CyberSecurity Insiders

CHALLENGE: Increasing number of ransomware and DDoS attacks, new vulnerabilities introduced by work-from-home, and the need to protect rapidly growing volumes of IoT devices, has put many enterprise security organizations at a crossroads. This shift requires them to re-think their approach to secure-edge networking, and connected endpoints.

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Android Debugging Tools Also Useful for Compromising Devices, Mining Cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

Once an open adb port is identified, the malware drops a stage 1 shell script onto the device which, when launched, downloads two additional (stage 2) shell scripts which then download the “next stage binary for several architectures and launch the corresponding one.” He is currently Global CISO for the ATCO Group of companies.