Security News

Vast phishing campaigns boost global criminal attack footprint (Help Net Security)
2016-10-06 13:00

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed a record number of phishing attacks in the second quarter of 2016. APWG observed 466,065 unique phishing websites in Q2. This represents a increase...

53% of DDoS attacks result in additional compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:45

DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organizations, according to Neustar. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to...

Mirai “internet of things” malware from Krebs DDoS attack goes open source (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 13:08

Seems that the recent mega-DDoS against cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs came from insecure routers, cameras, even printers.

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-10-05 12:51

DVR’s, IP-enabled cameras, home cable equipment and many other IOT connected devices are that latest in potent DDoS tools available to attackers.

Hackers Could Harm Diabetics via Insulin Pump Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-04 18:22

Carbon Black, IBM Partner on Attack Remediation (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-04 16:07

Domain name resolution is a Tor attack vector, but don't worry (The Register)
2016-10-04 06:07

DefecTor: DNS-enhanced correlation attacks against Tor users (Help Net Security)
2016-09-30 20:02

A group of researchers from Princeton University, Karlstad University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have devised two new correlation attacks that can be leveraged to deanonymize Tor users....

DDoS Attack on French Web Host Came From Compromised IoT Devices (September 28 29, 2016) (SANS Newsbites)
2016-09-30 18:51

1 in 3 organizations have experienced an insider attack in the last year (Help Net Security)
2016-09-30 13:10

A new Bitglass report on insider threats in the enterprise found that, in a third of organizations surveyed, careless or malicious user behavior resulted in data leakage, up slightly from a year...