Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

If the company had a factory, wouldn’t you want to know if a whole storage depot of their product was destroyed by flooding? If that did happen, you might want to also know what the risk of flood risk is for your other investments. Kind of like how we use hashtags to tag different information in our social media posts.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap.

Passwords 363

Passwords Architecture Data breaches Internet 363

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Helpfully, many of the faces in that photo have been tagged and associated with their respective Facebook profiles. Scylla co-founder Sasha Angus said the messages that flooded their inbox once they set up an email server on that domain quickly filled in many of the details they didn’t already have about The Manipulaters.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 21, 2023

It gets you part way there, but what happens when you get a genuine flood of traffic because the site has hit the mainstream news? See the earlier problem with that. Block UA strings? Pointless, because they're easily randomised. Rate limit an ASN ? It happens.

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Firewall Authentication Internet Internet 198

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! In the case of a website, this results in the site becoming unreachable to normal visitors, most often because the website server will begin to fail to respond within a reasonable amount of time while being saturated with junk data from the attacker.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These barriers serve to limit the damage, much like the watertight bulkheads of a naval vessel that help limit flooding between compartments. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! One important part of this is effective barriers between applications and trust levels. Proper Permissions on Config File.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

It floods cloud systems with traffic, overloading capacity and causing service failures. DDoS Attacks The average distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack duration increased from 30 minutes in 2021 to 50 minutes in 2022. It impacts CSPs and customers relying on the affected cloud services for data access and storage.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

Overall, we saw a sizeable number of port scans, floods, probes and all kinds of web application exploitation attempts showing up daily at various peak hours. The same script was then copied and amended to add tags to devices. So, to make this flexible, we use tags in Meraki Systems Manager speak. However, it didn’t work.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Named for how fast it could duplicate itself, the Rabbit Virus would flood infected computers with these copies, slowing down and even crashing machines with relative ease. While the Creeper was a relatively benign program, 1974’s Rabbit Virus was one of the first computer viruses developed with malicious intent.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

The same way you do in the real world – the market becomes flooded. Data stolen from the infected system is labeled with specific binary tags that identify the type of information when it is sent to the C2 server. This is the story of information stealers today.

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