For more than a decade, attackers have used distributed denial of service attacks to disrupt their victims’ operations, often taking organizations completely offline. The motivations behind these attacks include notoriety, competitive advantage, cyber warfare, terrorism, hacktivism and/or extortion. Bandwidth- or resource-saturating DDoS attacks are effective, but today they are not the most common type of […]
One of the most concerning characteristics of the Godless malware is the ability to receive remote instructions on which app to download and install on mobile devices, without the user’s knowledge. This is called command and control (C&C). Being a DDoS subject matter expert, I believe this has the makings of something more insidious than […]
Lizard Squad is best known for launching DDoS attacks against Microsoft Xbox Live and Sony PlayStation Network, and doing so ‘for the lulz!’ SC Magazine UK has been pondering whether the motivation actually matters? Blizzard CS’s Battle.net platform was experiencing ‘technical difficulties’ that disrupted logins for Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft gamers earlier this […]
Private sector executives praised the information-sharing implementation of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 during a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. The hearing witnesses celebrated the legislation’s protections from liability.
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The current methods of data storage and transport are inadequate. A better way is to use a neutral space-based cloud storage network, explains Cloud Constellation Corp. co-founder and CEO Scott Sobhani in a guest column for Cloud Security Resource this week.
NSFOCUS has launched a new global cloud security platform. Its first offering based on this platform will focus on protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS). This first offering under the NSFOCUS Cloud umbrella is called NSFOCUS Cloud DPS. It will provide users with 1.2 terabits of capacity; access to global cloud centers in California, Frankfurt, […]
Santa Clara, Calif. — NSFOCUS, a global network and application security provider, announced the launch of NSFOCUS Cloud, a world-wide cloud-deployed security platform. NSFOCUS Cloud provides customers with easy access to advanced security services and offers comprehensive, end-to-end protection from a single source when used in combination with NSFOCUS’ on-premises equipment.
NSFOCUS, a global network and application security provider, today announced the launch of NSFOCUS Cloud, a world-wide cloud-deployed security platform. NSFOCUS Cloud provides customers with easy access to advanced security services and offers comprehensive, end-to-end protection from a single source when used in combination with NSFOCUS’s on-premises equipment.
A hacker using the handle Peace is currently selling 360 million Myspace users’ email addresses and passwords, 40 million email addresses and passwords for the dating site Fling and 65 million Tumblr passwords, security researcher Troy Hunt reports.
