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What Should You Do When Your Identity Has Been Compromised?

July 26, 2018 — by Daniel Smith — 0

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Almost every day, someone calls me to inquire about how to deal with a compromised identity. It has become so common that I have come to the point of just assuming everyone has had their identity compromised in some way, shape or form after the last few years of large-scale data breaches[1].

In 2018, the trend of large data breaches continues with electronic toymaker Vtech settling for $650,000 after suffering a data breach that resulted in exposed personal information about millions of children. Just in the last few months, major breaches targeting payment processing systems at Chili’s, Rail Europe and Macy’s have occurred, resulting in the exposure of customers’ credit card details such as card numbers, CCV codes, expiration dates and in some cases additional information like addresses, phone numbers and emails.

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New Threat Landscape Gives Birth to New Way of Handling Cyber Security

May 1, 2018 — by Carl Herberger — 2

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With the growing online availability of attack tools and services, the pool of possible attacks is larger than ever. Let’s face it, getting ready for the next cyber-attack is the new normal! This ‘readiness’ is a new organizational tax on nearly every employed individual throughout the world.

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Darknet: Attacker’s Operations Room

December 20, 2017 — by Nir Ilani — 0

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Originating from ARPANET back in the 70’s, the Darknet is essentially an overlay network, which applies strong privacy and encryption practices.  I am often asked what’s the difference between Surface vs. Deep vs. Dark Web, so let me put it as simply as I can – and then let’s examine their relationship and contribution to cyber-attack campaigns that take place more frequently.

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The Evolution of the Dark Web

August 23, 2017 — by Daniel Smith — 2

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Darknet markets are nothing new but they have grown considerably in popularity since the highly publicized take down of the Silk Road marketplace in October of 2013. Since then users around the world have flocked to these sites in search of drugs and other illicit services. Due to the high demand and availability for these items many marketplaces began to spring up across the Darknet. Most of these marketplaces feature drugs, but after the Silk Road takedown, marketplaces began offering items Silk Road wouldn’t allow. These items included weapons, credit cards and other malicious services like malware, DDoS-as-a-service and data dumps.

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The Economics of Cyber-Attacks

April 4, 2017 — by Mike O'Malley — 0

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How to Provide State of the Art Protection against Real World Threats

We live in a world where increasing numbers of complex cyber breach tools are available on the Darknet. But what is the Darknet and how do we protect against it? The Darknet is an anonymous and obfuscated section of the internet where criminals can exchange information, tools and money to carry out attacks with little or no traceability. The Darknet provides a service marketplace where criminals can do many of the same things that law-abiding citizens do every day. Criminals search the internet (anonymously). They exchange emails with other criminals and prospective customers, they read news on the latest opensource tools available to perform effective attacks. They even have an online marketplace where cyber-attack services can be ordered and placed into your online shopping cart. In fact, a Darknet marketplace recently advertised $7,500 to rent the now notorious Mirai botnet – the same botnet used to generate a several hundred gigabit multi-vector attack that took down the services of Amazon, BBC, HBO, Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, and many others in October 2016.

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The Shadow Brokers went dark, the NSA weakened and exposed in the cyber war

January 17, 2017 — by Pascal Geenens — 0

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On January 12th, the Shadow Brokers announced they are ‘going dark’ by leaving a farewell: “So long, farewell peoples. TheShadowBrokers is going dark, making exit. Continuing is being much risk and b*******, not many bitcoins. … Despite theories, it always being about bitcoins for TheShadowBrokers. Free dumps and b******* political talk was being for marketing attention. There being no bitcoins in free dumps and giveaways. You are being disappointed? Nobody is being more disappointed than TheShadowBrokers.”

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Radware’s Top Blogs of 2016

January 5, 2017 — by Radware — 0

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Happy Near Year! Another year has come and gone in the blink of an eye. 2016 brought with it several interesting threats and attacks in the cyber-security space, among them the largest DDoS attack in history, the enslavement of Internet of Things (IoT) devices by botnets, the rise of cyber ransom and more – all of which we have dutifully reported here on the Radware Blog.

You, our readers, are what drive our dedication and commitment to industry insight. So what did you think of 2016? We’ve compiled a list of the top 5 blogs you most loved from last year.

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