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Here’s how anyone with $20 can hire an IoT botnet to blast out a week-long DDoS attack

The Last Watchdog

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. DDoS attacks are evolving to become more diverse. GitHub’s logo.

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NEW TECH: Baffin Bay Networks takes a ‘cloud-first’ approach to securing web applications

The Last Watchdog

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? The business equivalent of the toaster probe might well be two categories of automated attacks: Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks and SQL injection ( SQLi ) hacks.

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GUEST ESSAY: Lessons learned in 2021 as cloud services, mobility and cybersecurity collided

The Last Watchdog

To combat this, businesses who are agile in adopting digital transformation strategies reaped the benefits: from better security hygiene to reduce the risk of a data breach to improved productivity that ultimately yields higher revenue. Here are a few important trends that you should consider for 2022: Single vendor SASE play.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

If you’re like millions of other Americans, your TV is connected to the Internet and uses technology generated from the nation’s power grid. Traditional approaches to cybersecurity in the energy sector have been to invest in disparate products and technologies. In the U.S. electrical grid is effectively attacked.

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Black Hat insights: WAFs are getting much more dynamic making them well-suited to protect SMBs

The Last Watchdog

That said, there is one venerable technology – web application firewalls ( WAFs) – that is emerging as a perfect fit for SMBs in today’s environment, as all companies shift to a deeper reliance on cloud services and mobile apps. Fast forward to the current era of digital transformation. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. Consider that 90% of the data that exists in the world was created in two years — 2017 and 2018 — and that our digital universe is on track to swell from 3.2 Talk more soon.

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NEW TECH: A better way to secure agile software — integrate app scanning, pen testing into WAF

The Last Watchdog

Based in Bengalura, India, Indusface helps its customers defend their applications with a portfolio of services that work in concert with its flagship web application firewall ( WAF ,) a technology that has been around for about 15 years. WAFs have become a table stakes; any company with a public-facing website should by now have a WAF.

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