Security News > 2019

Hackers who DDoSed African telecom and US hospital get long prison sentences
2019-01-14 12:45

Two men who launched DDoS attacks against a variety of targets have received substantial prison sentences on Friday. Attacks against Liberian telecom 30-year-old Daniel Kaye (aka “BestBuy”), from...

Podcast: Emotet Grows With Fast-Evolving Tactics
2019-01-14 12:00

Threatpost discusses the future of the Emotet banking trojan with Cylance.

10 years for Boston Children’s Hospital DDoSer
2019-01-14 11:47

Martin Gottesfeld said he wishes he “had done more” than knock out BCH’s network for at least two weeks.

USB-C Authentication sounds great, so why are people worried?
2019-01-14 11:23

USB-C Authentication could banish USB threats forever, but it might also mean you're tied to buying ‘approved’ accessories.

UK Sentences Man for Mirai DDoS Attacks Against Liberia
2019-01-14 11:18

Daniel Kaye Was Paid to Disrupt Liberia's Largest Telecommunications FirmA U.K. court has sentenced Daniel Kaye, 30, after he admitted launching DDoS attacks against Liberia's largest...

Facebook exec gets SWATted
2019-01-14 11:17

The imposter claimed to be the Facebook exec and said he'd shot his wife, tied up his kids and planted pipe bombs “all over the place.”

Considering an SD-WAN deployment? The best solution may already be in your network
2019-01-14 07:00

When the internet goes down, business stops. Every business today relies on cloud applications to run day-to-day operations, including CRM applications like Salesforce, engineering collaboration...

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble opposition jailed
2019-01-14 06:56

Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband A 30 year-old man from Surrey has been given 32 months in jail after admitting to a series of DDoS attacks on an African telco.…

Strategies for expertly protecting industrial control systems
2019-01-14 06:45

Andrew Ginter is the Vice President of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions. We sat down with him to learn more about his new book, Secure Operations Technology, a collection of...

Why security by design and security DevOps are so critical to success
2019-01-14 06:30

The advances made in technology throughout the past several decades have brought about an inevitable digital transformation, which companies are experiencing in today’s world. This transformation...