With the advancement of IT-based transformation and the rapid development of IT, various network technologies have seen more extensive and profound applications, along with which come a multitude of cyber security issues. Come to find out what information security issues you should beware of in the workplace. (more…)
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IP Reputation Report-11172019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at November 17, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Laos is in first place. The Uzbekistan is in the second place. The...
Cybersecurity Insights-5
Insights into Vulnerabilities 4.1 Overall Trend The National Vulnerability Database had recorded 15,800 CVE vulnerabilities for 2018, including 4096 high-risk ones. Compared with 2017, the total number of vulnerabilities found in 2018 increased 8.2%, while the number of high-risk ones dropped by 4.8%. Although the number of vulnerabilities increased steadily,...
Advisory: Open-Source Compression Library Libarchive Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-18408)
Overview Recently, a code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-18408) was disclosed in the security update of Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and other distributions. (more…)
How NSFOCUS ADS KO’s DDoS Attacks
What Is DDoS? Look at the following example: Assume that you run a shop that is doing well. At this time, your neighbor, Mr. Wang (or whatever his name is), whose business is slack, looks at you as an eyesore. Therefore, he hires a group of hooligans. Then you find...
Cloud DPS Showing That Gaming Customers Are in Need of Tbps-Level Cleaning Resources to Counter Volumetric Attacks
In July, 2019, Cloud DPS, a cloud cleaning product from NSFOCUS, managed to withstand a wave of DDoS attacks over 100 Gbps that lasted one week. Targeting a board/card game vendor, those attacks exhibited perfect regularity, with the traffic averaging 100 Gbps and peaking at 431.6 Gbps. (more…)
