Yandex warded off the largest DDoS attack in history recorded at 22 million requests per second and attributed to a new botnet Meris that exploits MikroTik devices.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
As attacks evolve and become more sophisticated, the industry's response has been to adopt the zero-trust architecture. However, with the rise of zero-trust architecture, we've also seen an unexpected, unwelcome guest: complexity.
With the aid of technology, insider fraud has outranked all other forms of fraud for modern businesses, ironically the companies are also using it to pre-emptively stop fraudsters in their tracks.
Secure coding training is critical, but how that training is developed and presented can make a tremendous difference between “checking the box” training – and training that yields results.
The crypto world has been anticipating the approval of Bitcoin ETFs by the SEC. A group of hackers touched off premature celebration on Tuesday when they gained control of the SEC's X account, using the unauthorized access to post a fake approval message.
Rapid7 says that the Codecov supply chain attack exposed source code repositories for internal tools used for the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service,and a subset of its customers’ data.
“Many Americans are lost” when it comes to dealing with data breaches. According to a new survey by Lexington Law, many do not even check whether or not they are victims.
Encryption vulnerability renders Samsung phones in the Galaxy line from 2017 to 2021 completely insecure, at least until they are updated to security patches from July 2021 and beyond.
There's a common misconception that the AI label automatically makes a cybersecurity solution better when that's far from the truth. Organizations don't need AI or ML tools to improve cybersecurity.
2020 has demonstrated several times over that no target is beneath the world's cyber criminals; this time it's a coordinated phishing attack on the global vaccine supply chain.