DDoS attacks increased 91% in 2017 thanks to IoT

Over the last few months, UK media outlets have been filled with reports about the series of tough new measures being introduced on 9th May to protect our national critical infrastructure against cyber threats. In January, the government confirmed

U.S. government agencies are working hard to solve the problem of botnets and other cyber threats, and are asking for input from various stakeholders. In July 2017 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted

Corero Network Security plc (LON:CNS), the global network security company, has today announced two orders for its SmartWall® Threat Defense System (“SmartWall”) technology with a combined value of $0.9 million (with additional incremental orders expected in

Researchers claim to have discovered a way of mitigating a vulnerability in Memcached servers which is responsible for two of the biggest DDoS attacks ever recorded. Corero Network Security said it has disclosed the new “kill switch”

It is less than 2 weeks since the “Memcached” reflection/amplification vulnerability became widely known and DDoS attackers began exploiting unprotected Memcached servers to launch massive denial-of-service attacks against target organizations. The record for the largest DDoS

Github has weathered the biggest DDoS attack in history with just 10 minutes of downtime, according to new reports. The code-sharing site was subjected to a colossal 1.35Tbits/sec surge in traffic, as unknown hackers attempted to take

A recent Cisco report found that 42 percent of organizations experienced “burst”distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in 2017. Burst attacks, otherwise known as Pulse-Wave attacks, are gaining favor among hackers because they enable perpetrators to attack multiple targets, one after

New Kaspersky Labs research notes that the financial impact of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack continues to rise, and is now more than $120K for SMBs and more than $2M for enterprise organizations. A Corero Network Security executive

When Businesses Suffer as a Result of DDoS Attacks It’s hardly a surprise that DDoS attacks are so common. What is surprising is that so many companies still lack adequate DDoS protection. Our own survey of

International cyber relations don’t feel very warm, safe and fuzzy these days. This past week Robert Mueller, the U.S. special counsel to the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia’s possible meddling in the 2016 American elections, indicted 13 Russian

Once relegated to simple subscription firewall and internet security software, today’s smart homes have come a long way when it comes to cybersecurity. Thanks to the rapid rise of smart home-related IoT products – and the

On January 30, 2018 a new mass exploitation tool called “Autosploit” was released on Github, a Git repository hosting service. Autosploit leverages Python code to automatically search for vulnerable devices connected to the Internet and then

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A persistent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the past week has prompted a slowdown on the Business Wire website, but seemingly hasn’t exposed client data, company Chief Operating Officer (COO) Richard DeLeo told customers

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2017 will be remembered as the year of massive data breaches, state-sponsored attacks, numerous ransomware threats and more phishing scams them we can count. But it also marked a turning point for the DDoS landscape. Corero

Earlier this month, a report by Neustar International Security Council (NISC) revealed that many businesses viewed unsecured IoT devices as their biggest concern about the state of their organisation’s security. While ransomware and financial data theft were still