Security News

2017 Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions report
2017-12-14 13:50

In their 36-criteria evaluation of DDoS mitigation providers, Forrester identified 11 of the most significant ones — Akamai Technologies, Arbor Networks, Cloudflare, F5 Networks, Fortinet, Huawei...

Week in review: Top GDPR compliance risks, DDE attack mitigations, Node.js security
2017-11-13 02:04

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Infosec expert viewpoint: Vulnerability patching Vulnerability patching is one of the most useful and cost-effective...

Microsoft offers mitigation advice for DDE attacks scenarios
2017-11-09 20:25

Microsoft has published a security advisorty containing DDE attack mitigation instructions for both users and admins. What’s a DDE attack? For a while now, attackers have been ditching malicious...

Cloudflare Announces Unmetered DDoS Mitigation, Geo Key Manager
2017-09-26 13:17

Web performance and security solutions provider Cloudflare announced this week that all customers will benefit from unmetered mitigation against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and...

Global DDoS mitigation market trends and developments
2017-09-11 12:30

Frost & Sullivan found that the DDoS mitigation market generated a revenue of $816 million in 2016 and is expected to register a CAGR of 17.1 percent through 2021. Threat actors’ continuous...

Windows 10 Mitigations Make Future EternalBlue Attacks Difficult (Threatpost)
2017-06-07 19:25

Now that researchers have built a port of EternalBlue to Windows 10, they've probably only now caught up to what the NSA has had for a long while.

Mark Dowd on Exploit Mitigation Development (Threatpost)
2017-05-26 16:00

Mark Dowd discusses why certain exploit mitigations have been so successful in driving up the cost of exploit development for attackers.