DDoS: The Reason Why

April 7, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Cyber Security Trend Featured article by Stephen Gates A DDoS attack is blatantly illegal anywhere, and distressingly common everywhere. In fact, by most analysts’ estimates, it’s getting worse—every online enterprise is worried about this assault, or at least should be.  Of course, some things have changed: The parties involved, the strategies deployed, the technologies used, […]

NSFOCUS Continues EMEA Expansion with appointment of industry veteran

April 6, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Aftab Afzal Will Oversee New Business Initiatives in Key Markets LONDON, UK. – April 6, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Aftab Afzal has joined the company as the new Senior VP and General Manager for the EMEA region. NSFOCUS was founded in 2000 to provide enterprise-level network security solutions and services primarily in […]

Turkish Identity Breach May Affect 50 Million

April 5, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Infosecurity Magazine A breach of the Turkish national database has confirmed that it contains personal information of around 50 million people. Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of Cloud said that at the time of writing, the validity of the data has not been confirmed, but it could go down as one of the largest data breaches […]

DDoS – Motivations for the Madness, Part 2

March 28, 2016 | Adeline Zhang

Track: General Security Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS In an earlier blog post I described some of the threat actors and the motivations that often fuel DDoS attacks. Continuing with this theme, another prominent motivation reared its ugly head in the late 2000s.  Cyber hacktivism, as it is called today, is still one […]

DDoS – Motivations for the Madness, Part 1

March 21, 2016 | Adeline Zhang

Track: General Security Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS Most people know that launching a DDoS attack is illegal in just about every country in the world. However, breaking the law or the penalties that go along with it, have not slowed the growth or frequency of DDoS attacks.  Most companies who track DDoS […]

NSFOCUS Appoints Morton Frey VP Customer Success

March 15, 2016 | NSFOCUS

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 15, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Morton Frey, who has built an impressive track record combining hands-on field experience with effective customer interaction to swiftly resolve key issues, has been appointed the new VP of Customer Success. He brings more than 16 years of senior-level experience in the […]

Despite precautions, DDoS attacks becoming more dire, damaging

March 14, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Third Certainty The daily rounds of DDoS assaults launched by ideologues and extortionists continue to rise in magnitude, while sucking up vast amounts of the Internet’s bandwidth. This is continuing even as companies and organizations are spending millions to defend against such attacks. Steve Gates, our Chief Research Analyst said business owners considering anti-DDoS technology […]

Slew of dangerous Adobe Flash flaws patched

March 11, 2016 | NSFOCUS

IT NEWS Adobe has issued patches for 21 serious flaws in its Flash Player software to address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow attackers to take control of victim’s systems. Researchers from multi companies including NSFOCUS, also discovered a heap underflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash and eight memory corruption bugs – all of which allow […]

11 Security Solutions for Small Business

March 11, 2016 | NSFOCUS

The Business News Daily Cybersecurity is a must for any business with a presence online. Whether you have a website, online accounts or any type of Web-based infrastructure, you are at risk for a cyberattack. The article summed up 11 small-business-friendly cybersecurity solutions, which included DDoS mitigation solution provided by NSFOCUS. To read the full […]

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.182 Released to Fix Security Bug Used in Live Attacks

March 10, 2016 | NSFOCUS

Softpedia Adobe’s Flash Player update has been late this time around, but it’s here now, and users have a good reason to upgrade since one of the 18 security holes plugged during this month’s release is an issue used in real-world malware attacks. Most of these bugs were reported by security researchers working in security […]

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