Security News

Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices
2024-05-31 13:42

Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology (OT) devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. "These repeated...

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive
2024-05-29 20:16

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Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search
2024-05-23 08:44

A massive Microsoft outage in some regions affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo. [...]

Rockwell Advises Disconnecting Internet-Facing ICS Devices Amid Cyber Threats
2024-05-22 12:21

Rockwell Automation is urging its customers to disconnect all industrial control systems (ICSs) not meant to be connected to the public-facing internet to mitigate unauthorized or malicious cyber...

Too many ICS assets are exposed to the public internet
2024-05-17 03:30

"Our research reveals alarming gaps and unexpected trends in enterprise infrastructure, including the decay of network segmentation, persistent challenges in attack surface management, and the increasing volume of dark matter on modern networks," said HD Moore, CEO. IT and OT are converging, expanding the attack surface of organizations and requiring new techniques to discover and manage assets. OT systems are high-value targets for attackers and are consistently exposed to untrusted networks.

Does a VPN Slow Down Your Internet Speed?
2024-05-16 10:09

More bluntly - do VPNs slow down your internet? Do they have a significant impact on overall stability and connectivity? What factors influence your internet speed while using a VPN? We'll answer these questions and more below! Quality VPNs will typically slow down your internet speed only by around 10-20%, if at all.

China-Linked 'Muddling Meerkat' Hijacks DNS to Map Internet on Global Scale
2024-04-29 13:46

A previously undocumented cyber threat dubbed Muddling Meerkat has been observed undertaking sophisticated domain name system (DNS) activities in a likely effort to evade security measures and...

Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped
2024-04-19 20:30

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Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic
2024-04-18 03:00

49.6% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a 2% increase over the previous year, and the highest level Imperva has reported since it began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. For the fifth consecutive year, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, up from 30.2% in 2022, while traffic from human users decreased to 50.4%. Automated traffic is costing organizations billions annually due to attacks on websites, APIs, and applications.

92,000+ internet-facing D-Link NAS devices accessible via “backdoor” account (CVE-2024-3273)
2024-04-08 09:00

A vulnerability in four old D-Link NAS models could be exploited to compromise internet-facing devices, a threat researcher has found.The existence of the flaw was confirmed by D-Link last week, and an exploit for opening an interactive shell has popped up on GitHub.