Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The findings in the report expose weaknesses in security controls that leave web applications vulnerable to severe cyberattacks, including Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) and data breaches. Threat actors can exploit these gaps to launch DDoS attacks, steal sensitive data, and even compromise entire systems.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

There, it posts breach announcements and offers a free DDoS tool. Funksec, a new cyber extortion gang, ranked first with 18% of all attacks followed by CL0P, Akira and RansomHub, according to NCC Groups December 2024 Monthly Threat Pulse report. NCC Group calls the December data a wake-up call. Monterey Benchmark v4.0.0 CIS Apple macOS 14.0

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security.

DDOS 69

DDOS Encryption Data breaches Identity Theft 69

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Between June and November 2019, a small group of cyber criminals targeted a financial services institution and three of its clients, resulting in the compromise of more than 4,000 online banking accounts, according to a credible financial source. Detecting credential stuffing attacks.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Instead, it recommends multi-factor authentication for accessing internet-exposed systems. Access denied: large-scale attack highlights DDoS risk . How good are your defences against DDoS? Two useful questions to ask after Cloudflare reported the “largest ever” distributed denial of service attack. million in 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 11, 2021

NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced it is partnering with leading cyber insurance companies to help businesses manage their risks online. An insurance policy is an effective tool to articulate the impact of security choices on the financial risk of a company.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Larger organizations most targeted by advanced persistent threats (APTs) like enterprises and government agencies, financial services, energy, and telecommunications make up Kaspersky EDR’s clientele. Read our overview and analysis of Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Solution. Also, read our Top MDR Services for 2021.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For more information about securing RDP tools: “ Commonly Exploited Protocols: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ” (Center for Internet Security) “ What is remote desktop protocol (RDP)? ” (TechTarget) “ Wondering Whether RDP IS Secure? Financial services and law offices rounded out the top five.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Officials with Microsoft’s Azure public cloud said the company in late August was able to stave off a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a European customer that originated in the Asia-Pacific region. Mitigating the DDoS Attack. DDoS an Ongoing Threat. The attack, which hit 2.4

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A company was told to transfer a certain amount to a Bitcoin wallet to prevent a DDoS attack that the cybercriminals threatened to unleash upon it. They promised to provide a demonstration to prove that their threats were real: no one would be able to use the services, websites or email of the company under attack for thirty minutes.

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NetSpi Executives

MARCH 21, 2025

External penetration testing focuses on vulnerabilities that could be exploited from outside the organization’s network, such as through internet-facing services, while internal penetration testing simulates attacks from within the organization, assessing risks posed by insiders or attackers who have breached perimeter defenses.

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