Turkey’s ISPs hijack Google’s DNS service, killing bypass for Twitter,...
Several ISPs in Turkey are hijacking traffic to a Google service that until Saturday offered locals a way around the government’s blockade on Twitter and YouTube.
View ArticleA new kind of DDoS threat: The "Nonsense Name" attack
There's a new species of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack targeting name servers, which could be called the "nonsense name" attack. It can wreak havoc on recursive and authoritative name...
View ArticleThree security threats keeping service providers on their toes
While security threats have always been present, modern technology has provided more avenues for attacks and subsequently amplified the related risks. With broadband and Internet traffic growing...
View ArticleRoyal Caribbean Cruise Lines: detecting threats on the ocean with DNS data
Spotting security threats across your IT estate: how Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines used Splunk Cloud for threat management
View ArticleRemotely exploitable bug hits Linux systems
Google is encouraging admins to patch systems after detailing a critical bug in a function in the GNU C Library (glibc) that could put a huge number of Linux system at risk of remote exploitation.
View ArticleMore companies being hit by repeated DDoS attacks: Akamai
Purveyors of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are continuing to ramp up their game, with a growing number of companies being targeted multiple times and overall volumes of large attacks...
View ArticleA Masterpiece of Criminality
Over the last 15 years, the sophistication of malicious botnets has increased dramatically.
View ArticleIoT, health and other data creates massive value
With about five billion IoT devices connected today, with growth expected to reach 25 to 38 billion over the next five years it's clear something needs to be done to arrest the threat of billions of...
View ArticleReport debunks claim Russia was behind DDoS that rattled the internet
Last Friday’s attack that cut access to dozens of popular websites was likely carried out by kids rather than Russia or another state actor, according to a firm that’s been closely tracking the incident.
View ArticleIoT, health and other data creates massive value
With about five billion IoT devices connected today, with growth expected to reach 25 to 38 billion over the next five years it's clear something needs to be done to arrest the threat of billions of...
View ArticleMirai may have knocked nearly a million German broadband users offline
A Mirai-like botnet was behind the broadband outage affecting nearly one million customers of German carrier Deutsche Telekom, according to security company Kaspersky Lab.
View ArticleGlobal Trends in Digital Identity - What’s to Come in 2017
To understand what’s coming in 2017 in the worlds of data privacy, information security, and digital identity, we need to understand the implications of a handful of developments that happened in...
View Article“Prehistoric” bugs in dnsmasq strike Android, Linux and Google’s Kubernetes
Ancient open source bugs hit just about every device with a Linux kernel.
View ArticleFree, filtered alternative DNS leverages threat-intelligence data to raise...
Faced with a growing volume of ransomware, fraud and malware attacks, the introduction of a free alternative-DNS service called Quad9 is being hailed as a way of offering IT administrators an easy way...
View ArticleDon’t forget to lock the door
Why carrying out a comprehensive DNS audit can minimise your business’s risk of a cyberattack and key actions to remember when completing it
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