Security News

SSHowDowN Proxy attacks using IoT devices (Help Net Security)
2016-10-13 12:45

Akamai’s Threat Research team has identified a recent spate of SSHowDowN Proxy attacks whereby attackers are using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to remotely generate attack traffic by using a...

130,000 Avtech IP cameras, DVRs can be easily roped into IoT botnets (Help Net Security)
2016-10-12 18:51

Security researcher Gergely Eberhardt has unearthed over dozen of vulnerabilities in most IP cameras, NVRs and DVRs by Taiwanese manufacturer Avtech, including things like plaintext storage of...

IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets (Threatpost)
2016-10-11 15:52

The IoT botnet behind the some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic in Layer 7 attacks.

Cloud and IoT adoption requires organizations to future-proof PKI implementations (Help Net Security)
2016-10-11 13:15

New research by the Ponemon Institute shows an increased reliance on PKIs in today’s enterprise environment, driven by the growing use of cloud-based services and applications and the Internet of...