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Anonymous Sudan launched Cyber Attack on Microsoft Outlook

CyberSecurity Insiders

Outlook.com users have been suffering with intermittent outages from yesterday and news is out that the disruption was caused because of a DDoS cyber attack launched by a hacking group named ‘Anonymous Sudan’. How-ever, it issued a statement that it has employed mitigation policies to neutralize the impact of the DdoS attack.

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

The Last Watchdog

The amazing array of digital services we so blithely access on our smartphones wouldn’t exist without agile software development. Indusface has differentiated itself by going well beyond providing standard WAF blacklisting services. To set this deadline required a long, often tortured planning cycle. if not outright project failure.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity can be difficult to implement, and to make matters worse, the security professionals needed to do it right are in short supply. Managed IT security service providers (MSSPs) make life easier for organizations by providing outsourced expertise and tools at a fraction of the cost, time, and trouble of doing it yourself.

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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Security Affairs

The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that abused new network protocols. Another protocol exploited in attacks in the wild is the Apple Remote Management Service (ARMS). continues the report. “On

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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. A Significant Attack. DDoS Attacks on the Rise.

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FBI Warns of ‘More Destructive’ DDoS Attacks

SecureWorld News

In February 2020, UK security researchers discovered a vulnerability in free, open source, automation servers that would allow cybercriminals to amplify a Distributed Denial of Service attack by 100. FBI mitigation strategies for DDoS attacks. FBI warning addresses DDoS amplification attacks.

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NEW TECH: A couple of tools that deserve wide use — to preserve the integrity of U.S. elections

The Last Watchdog

McConnell recently blocking a bi-partisan bill to fund better election security , as well as the disclosure that his wife, Transportation Security Elaine Chao, has accepted money from voting machine lobbyists. First, there’s a tool called the Rapid Cyber Risk Scorecard. elections, looms all too large.