Security News

Creating a secure network for the Internet of Things (Help Net Security)
2015-10-29 08:15

The attitudes and perceptions around the Internet of Things (IoT) span a wide array of views from the extreme excitement of consumers and manufacturers, to the concerns (bordering on paranoia) of priv...

New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers (Help Net Security)
2015-10-29 07:30

Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a D...

Are IT security pros optimistic or naïve? (Help Net Security)
2015-10-29 07:09

Half of IT security practitioners in the U.S. view their organization as an unlikely target for attack, according to a Ponemon Institute survey of 614 IT security practitioners in the U.S. who are fam...