President Obama’s mention of cyber-security in last night’s State of the Union Address came as no surprise. The Obama camp implemented a novel approach this year of “previewing” the President’s main agenda items through a series of speeches in the week preceding the SOTU. But even without the preview, the comments on cyber-security were rather predictable (and brief).
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The Right Way to Secure Your Applications Against DDoS Using Signaling
David Monahan is Research Director for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and is a featured guest blogger.
Let’s face it. DDoS are the big, fat, scary bully of the Internet. When organizations have sufficiently tight security or a would-be attacker doesn’t have the skills to overcome a target’s security, he or she can buy capacity on a bot-net or other delivery vehicle and slam packets from all over the world at the target’s site and application(s).
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Tsunami SYN Flood Attack – A New Trend in DDoS Attacks?
Over the past week Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) detected a new type of SYN flood which is believed to be specially designed to overcome most of today’s security defenses with a TCP-based volume attack. Within a 48-hour period two different targets in two different continents were targeted with this new technique and have experienced very high attack volumes.
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Can Your Business Meet the Demands of Cyber-Ransom?
Online criminality has become a big business and new faces of social engineering and fraud are sweeping the globe. News articles regularly report on major breaches and outages, but rarely, if ever, do we see the underlying ransom demands that are presented before a business is attacked. The stand that organizations often take is that they do not negotiate with terrorists or pirates. But this approach, while noble, can become costly to a business, some may lose everything.
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6 Types of DDoS Protection for Your Business
David Monahan is Research Director for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and is a featured guest blogger.
DDoS attacks have become commonplace these days. The offending attackers may be hacktivists, cyber-criminals, and nation states or just about anyone else with an Internet grudge and a PayPal or Bitcoin account. These attacks themselves often require no technical skill. Someone with a bone to pick can simply purchase the use of any number of nodes on one or more botnets for an hourly fee (long term rate discounts available); use a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to organize the attack and then launch it.
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Cyber Attacks on Oil and Gas
A few weeks ago, news agencies shared reports on the Energetic Bear attack. This cyber-attack, or rather virus, was reportedly introduced by a Russian hacking group and it targeted oil, gas, power, and energy investment companies. The threatening malware had the ability to shut down major power grids, oil pipelines, gas, and energy traders. Analysts speculate that the attack motive was to gain competitive advantage in state-sponsored espionage against global oil and energy producers.
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Five Burning Security Issues in Cloud Computing
As companies accelerate their adoption of cloud technologies – like infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) – the need for solutions that provide secure access and reliable operations in the cloud increase in importance. Since your data will now reside in several different facilities, with different providers or partners, you now have a new “security perimeter” to monitor and defend. As such, the need to closely evaluate how cloud-based data is protected should be part of the overall security strategy. A top area of concern is defending applications from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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A 5 Step Plan on How to Protect Yourself from Cybercrime
Recently, I wrote an article for Help Net Security to discuss the modus operandi of cybercriminals and how this can lead to different types of cyber attacks. While we have previously encountered huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that appear to come from nowhere and flood the victim’s network security, we have begun to see much more stealth and more sophisticated attacks causing just as much, if not more, damage.
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Anonymous Delivers DDoS to the 2014 World Cup
With an estimated viewing audience of over 3.2 billion globally, the 2014 World Cup draws a large amount of viewers to television screens around the world and it brings a fair amount of advertisers as well.
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3 Things to Consider When Choosing a DDoS Solution
During a recent info-security event I had some great discussions about cyberwar, the impact of DDoS attacks and, consequently, the key criteria for implementing protection from these attacks.
For those of you searching for DDoS protection, here are things to consider when choosing a solution