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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. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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Podcast Episode 122: will 5G increase Internet of Things Risk?

The Security Ledger

But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible? And, just as important, what are the security implications of massively distributed IoT endpoints connected to capacious 5G cellular infrastructure? But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible? Read the whole entry. »

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

Related :Promise vs. pitfalls of IoT For small- and mid-sized businesses, firewalls, antivirus suites and access management systems represent the entry stakes for participating in today’s digital economy. Threat actors simply seek out the endless fresh attack vectors arising as an unintended consequence of digital transformation.

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Q&A: Researchers find evidence of emerging market for stolen, spoofed machine identities

The Last Watchdog

Machine identities are what make hybrid business networks possible; they are nothing less than the key to stitching together emerging IoT- and 5G-centric systems. Machine identities are foundational in our digital transformation, because everything that’s going onto the Internet is all built on machines.

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MY TAKE: Can Project Furnace solve DX dilemma by combining serverless computing and GitOps?

The Last Watchdog

Assuring the privacy and security of sensitive data, and then actually monetizing that data, — ethically and efficiently — has turned out to be the defining challenge of digital transformation. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.).