As cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile Internet evolve, application forms and requirements are going through changes. I believe that the application security trend virtually highlights technologies and design theories: technological innovations continue to focus on API concepts; the design theories of solutions, products, and services continue to move towards DevOps […]

The RSA Conference is the world’s biggest IT security meetings of the highest quality. Initially as a small cryptography forum set up in 1991, this conference has developed into a meeting at which renowned security experts from all around the world are invited to discuss the future cyberspace development and global security vendors are attracted […]

The Governance, Risk & Compliance track of the RSA Conference 2019 focuses on quantification of cybersecurity risks and related cases. For example, Superforecasting II: Risk Assessment Prognostication in the 21st Century by Rich Howard from Palo Alto Networks dwells upon how to evolve semi-quantitative risk assessment into more accurate quantitative risk assessment; Math is Hard: […]

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3.3 DDoS Attack Duration 3.3.1 Attack Duration Distribution In 2018, the average duration of a DDoS attack was 42 minutes, down 17% from 2017. This indicates that DDoS attacks were upgraded in industrialization, weaponization, and efficiency and DDoS-as-aService gained momentum for fast growth. We noticed that the longest DDoS attack in 2018 lasted around 12 […]

The RSA Conference 2019, which is dedicated to addressing worldwide information security issues, was held in March 4–8. This year’s RSA Conference took “Better” as its theme, aimed at exploring new cybersecurity development realms in a digital epoch and finding better security vendors, products, services, and solutions. In the past few years, with the rapid […]

1 About APT34 APT34, exposed to the public view in 2014, mainly targets Middle Eastern countries and some international organizations. APT34 attacks a variety of sectors mainly in the Middle East, but not limited to finance, government, energy, chemical engineer, and telecommunications.

1 Vulnerability Overview On April 17, China National Vulnerability Database (CNVD) published details of a remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server. Specifically, this vulnerability exists in the wls9_async_response.war component that comes with Oracle WebLogic Server as this component fails to properly deserialize the input information. An unauthorized attacker could exploit this vulnerability to […]

IoT Agenda – I am known for railing against IoT devices because I consider them the eventual destroyers of the internet as we know it. They are not secure, most people that use them do not realize they are not secure, and most vendors that make them have done little knowing they are not secure.