HSBC UK online banking operations disrupted by DDoS attack
fevereiro 2, 2016
SC Magazine HSBC UK was the target for a DDoS attack that flooded the financial institution’s systems with manufactured traffic, much to the dismay of online banking customers who were unable to access and manage their accounts. Dave Martin, our security expert and director suggested that HSBC’s servers “were probably busy handling a surge of […]
Anti-DDoS Solution from NSFOCUS Helps Australian Service Provider Micron21 Mitigate Massive Denial of Service Attack
fevereiro 1, 2016
Large-scale DDoS assault consumed 23 Terabytes of inbound data in only two hours; outage would have cost up to $1.3 Million SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 1, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that NSFOCUS Anti-DDoS System (ADS) has been used to mitigate a sustained, 90-Gbps Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack against Australian service […]
DHCP servers must be patched against denial-of-service attacks
janeiro 29, 2016
TechTarget Search Security The internet systems consortium released a critical patch for DHCP servers that fixed a flaw that could lead to DDoS attacks. However, the experts were split on whether this issue should lead organizations to switch to IPv6. Stephen Gates, principal sales engineer and technical expert from network security firm NSFOCUS IB said […]
Faulty database makes information public for 191 million American voters
janeiro 29, 2016
Fox News Dave Martin, Director & Security Expert at NSFOCUS had an interview with FOX in regards to 191 million American voters’ personal information wen publicity by faulty database. Even though it has been claimed that the voters’ information included is already publicly available from each government stage. There is no new or private information […]
Anti-ISIL Hackers Claim Responsibility for Massive Cyber Attack on BBC
janeiro 29, 2016
eSecurity Planet: All of the BBC’s websites were taken offline for several hours on the morning of December 31, 2015 as result of a massive 660 Gbps DDoS attack. The hacking group, named New World Hacking claimed the responsibility and addressed that to use the attack as a test of its capabilities for planed attacks […]
Security a top concern for holiday shoppers, retailers
janeiro 29, 2016
The Green Sheet The National Retail Federation and security analysts are urging merchants and consumers to remain vigilant during the high-peak shopping season, noting that high-volume sales may provide additional opportunities for cybercriminals to attack vulnerable POS infrastructures. The articles also listed the security best practices for merchant and consumer. Our security specialist Vann Abernethy […]
NSFOCUS Adds to Management Team with Longtime Security Industry Executive Tasso Mangas
janeiro 25, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 25, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that Tasso Mangas, an industry veteran with a reputation for building successful sales operations in information security, has joined the management team as VP for North America. In his new position, Mr. Mangas is responsible for generating increased revenue in the U.S. and […]
NSFOCUS Appoints Industry Veteran Jason Yuan as New VP, Product Management and Product Development
janeiro 15, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – January 14, 2016 – NSFOCUS IB today announced that industry veteran Jason Yuan has been appointed as the new VP, Product Management and Product Development. Mr. Yuan brings more than 20 years’ experience to his new role, encompassing previous high-level positions in security, networking, cloud and enterprise software. As the executive […]
Anatomy of an attack: network bandwidth exhaustion
janeiro 5, 2016
Track: Technical
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
DDoS attacks come in three basic flavors: network-layer, application-layer and a hybrid of the two. This is a somewhat simplistic view but when you look at the strategy for taking someone down via DDoS, the two primary vehicles are either exhaustion of available network bandwidth or the overwhelming of back-end processing power (which can be directed either at the server system itself or the applications residing on them). The most efficient approach to take down a target will depend on the target itself. This is why it is important for every company to consider all of the assets that could become targets when designing anti-DDoS protection. (mais…)
DDoS attacks – more than just disruption?
dezembro 21, 2015
Track: General Security
Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for decades and have been increasing in popularity due to the relative ease in carrying one out. Traditionally, the purpose of these attacks has been to make a site or service unavailable to its intended users for some duration via either flood-type attacks or application-layer attacks (which are smaller, but just as effective) that overwhelm the target’s network or systems. (mais…)
