Democratic lawmakers want to know why the agency didn’t inform consumers of the falsity of its claim sooner A group of House democrats want to know when FCC Chairman Ajit Pai knew that the agency’s claims of a DDoS attack were false. Last week, the FCC’s Office of Inspector General released a report that found no evidence to support the…
MODERN businesses use web applications every day to do different things, from interacting and engaging with customers to supporting sales and operations. As a result, web applications are rich with data and critical to the functioning of the company – which means, special precautions must be taken in order to protect them from hackers. However, not all organizations or their applications…
Macs have a well-deserved reputation for being relatively secure, but they’re not invincible. If your employees use Macs, you need to protect your business by cracking down on cybersecurity. Think your Mac is safe from malware attacks? Think again. According to a recent study, malware attacks against the Mac rose more than 270 percent last year. Some experts believe attacks against Mac…
A “wave of litigation over IoT liability is on the horizon,” according to an attorney who has represented plaintiffs in the 2015 Jeep hack. LAS VEGAS – The troves of insecure internet of things (IoT) devices have not yet led to widespread legal implications. But that’s set to change, a well-known attorney warned at Black Hat USA last week. Ijay…
In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase your website’s resilience to DDoS attacks. Today, we are going to focus on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS attack bringing down your site. Website caching is a technique to store content in a ready-to-go state…
A Cybereason honeypot project shows that ordinary cybercriminals are also targeting weakly secured environments. Contrary to what some might perceive, state-backed groups and advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are not the only adversaries targeting industrial control system (ICS) environments. A recent honeypot project conducted by security firm Cybereason suggests that ICS operators need to be just as concerned about ordinary,…
Attackers are harnessing the power of the internet, leveraging the proliferation of devices in the ever-expanding internet of things (IoT) to launch terabit-per-second–scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to NETSCOUT’s 2018 Threat Intelligence Report. DDoS attackers represent a wide range of actors with various motivations. While some are malware authors, others are opportunistic criminals taking advantage of affordable services for hire. “They are…
During the time the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was taking public comments ahead of the rollback of net neutrality rules, the agency had claimed its comments system was knocked offline by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks were used to question the credibility of the comment process, where millions of Americans had voiced against the net neutrality rollback. The Commission then…
The Future Today Institute, an organization that provides forecasts about how emerging technology will disrupt business and transform the workforce, has once again looked into its crystal ball—and cyber security executives might not be thrilled with the predictions. In its 2018 Tech Trends Report, the institute said organizations and individuals can expect to see more sophisticated data breaches, advanced hacker tactics,…
It was not a fairy-tale ending in court yesterday for a criminal hacktivist who had to be rescued by a Disney Cruise ship in 2016, after attempting to flee to Cuba to escape charges of attacking two health care providers. Martin Gottesfeld, 32, of Somerville, Mass., was convicted in his home state yesterday of one count of conspiracy to damage…
