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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. The Spamhaus attacker, for instance, noticed that there were literally millions of domain name system (DNS) resolvers that remained wide open all over the internet. Today, the potential for so-called DNS reflective attacks has become pervasive. Beyond DDoS.

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Unfixed vulnerability in popular library puts IoT products at risk

Malwarebytes

Researchers have found a vulnerability in a popular C standard library in IoT products that could allow attackers to perform DNS poisoning attacks against a target device. DNS poisoning. A router that distributes the internet connection across all the devices (often wireless). The vulnerability. Mitigation.

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New DNS Spoofing Threat Puts Millions of Devices at Risk

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability that could lead to DNS spoofing attacks in two popular C standard libraries that provide functions for common DNS operations. Understanding DNS Spoofing Attacks. For example, when you enter [link] the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers.

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New Mirai variant appears in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

“The IoT realm remains an easily accessible target for attackers. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. Many vulnerabilities are very easy to exploit and could, in some cases, have catastrophic consequences,” the researchers conclude.

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Dozens of Linksys router models leak data useful for hackers

Security Affairs

Security researcher Troy Mursch , Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets , discovered that over 20,000 Linksys wireless routers are leaking full historical records of every device ever connected to them. Unfortunately, the flaw is very easy to exploit, and it is possible.

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Fortinet vs Palo Alto Networks: Top NGFWs Compared

eSecurity Planet

These include Domain Name System (DNS) security services, web and video filtering, and an IPS. Cloud-delivered security services include DNS Security, WildFire, Threat Prevention, Advanced URL Filtering, IoT Security , Enterprise Data Loss Prevention , and SaaS Security.

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IDS & IPS Remain Important Even as Other Tools Add IDPS Features

eSecurity Planet

For example, Mandiant researchers discovered a threat actor that ran attacks off of equipment usually ignored on the network such as wireless access point controllers, storage area network (SAN) arrays, load balancers, and video conferencing camera systems. IDS & IPS Remain Relevant.

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