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Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram

Security Affairs

Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. The hacker collective Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Telegram in retaliation for the suspension of their primary account.

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Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online

Security Affairs

This is the biggest leak of Telnet passwords even reported. According to ZDNet that first published the news, the list was leaked on a popular hacking forum by the operator of a DDoS booter service. The list includes the IP address, username and password for the Telnet service for each device. ” reported ZDNet.

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Analysis of the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Report

Daniel Miessler

Verizon’s Breach Report is one of the best infosec reports out there, and I’m always excited when I hear it’s been released. The top malware type is Password Dumper, because it really is about getting those creds. DDoS is way up, both in numbers of attacks and the weight of them. The Dataviz Game on Point.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Randy Raw

SecureWorld News

Randy is a CISSP and is active in the Central Missouri InfoSec community. Answer: The day SQL slammer took down our entire state network with a very small number of old systems using a DDoS attack. Get to know Randy Raw. Question: What has been your most memorable moment thus far working in cybersecurity? Yeah, I'm that old.

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Experts Bemoan Shortcomings with IoT Security Bill

Threatpost

The infosec community say a recently approved IoT security bill is "nice," but doesn't hit on the important issues.

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The cyber skills gap & the diversity debate

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There remains the question, however, of whether people who are from a different ethnicity, gender or background to the stereotype “standard IT/infosec professional” are actually being treated equally in the cybersecurity industry. It’s a war zone.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

SecureList

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. In addition to DDoS attacks, it has added spam and calls to clients and partners of the victim company to its toolbox.

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