Proprietary Software and Security
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LastPass Suffers Data Breach, Source Code Stolen
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French Hospital Hit with Ransomware Attack, Hackers Asked for $10m [iophk: Windows TCO]
Since August 21, if the patient's care requires access to the technology platform, the hospital has been sending them to other facilities. They also changed or diverted the schedules for surgeries.
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The cloud computing giants are vying to protect their fat profits
For now there is little sign of a margin squeeze. On July 28th aws reported an operating margin of 29%, four times that of Amazon’s retail business. Azure’s margins, which Microsoft does not reveal, are believed to be steady, too. Google’s cloud segment cut its operating losses from 16% of revenue in the previous quarter to 14%.
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Minister: Friday's cyberattack on private media part of consistent pattern [iophk: Windows TCO]
The ensuing firewall tech has proven itself in heading off the kind of Distributed Denial of Service (DdoS) attack which private media sites such as Eesti Päevaleht and Delfi (owned by the Ekspress Group) and Postimees (owned by the group of the same name), as well as evening paper Õhtuleht, and in which thousands of requests are made to the same page per second, causing site overload, Järvan added.
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[Old] The rise of botnet DDoS
Specifically, the Nokia report shows the explosive growth of IoT botnets and an increasingly lucrative extortion market that have fueled exponential growth in DDoS capacity. We now measure IoT botnet and amplifier attack capacity exceeding 10 Tbps -– a significant 3-4x increase from the size of any publicly reported DDoS attacks to date. We further observe aggregate daily DDoS attack volumes peaking over 3 Tb/s during the study period.
In this short series of blog posts here, we will share our perspectives on the technologies and approaches that are available today that equip us with tools to fight DDoS more effectively than ever.
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[Old] The Rise of Botnet and DDoS Attacks [iophk: Windows TCO]
In our previous blog post we covered the history of DDoS attacks and our A10 Networks DDoS Threat Report, which reviewed the techniques used in DDoS attacks. In this article we’re going to cover the how of botnet and DDoS attacks, the most common mechanism for delivering attacks using collections of remotely controlled, compromised services or devices.
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Google Blocks Record-Setting DDoS Attack That Peaked at 46 Million RPS
According to Google, the assault originated from 5,256 source IPs from 132 countries, with 31% of the traffic coming from the top 4 countries.
Based on the characteristics of this attack, it appears that the Mantis DDoS botnet that Cloudflare detailed last month might have been responsible for the new record-setting incident as well.
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IoT vulnerability disclosures grew 57% from 2H 2021 to 1H 2022: report
Compiled by Claroty’s research team Team82, the State of XIoT Security Report: 1H 2022 is a deep examination of the vulnerabilities impacting the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT), a vast network of cyber-physical systems including operational technology and industrial control systems (OT/ICS), Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), building management systems, and enterprise IoT.