 The deadline for complying with the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is rapidly approaching as the law comes into effect on May 25, 2018.  The GDPR harmonizes data privacy laws across the European Union, and lays down mandates for
Fastly and Cloudflare both recently published end-of-year posts looking at the DDoS landscape as a whole. Both CDNs note the ways in which the DDoS landscape is evolving and the trend in increasingly sophisticated types of DDoS attack. Fastly’s position
Back in February 2015, Moscow-headquartered global cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab issued a statement on their website naming an incredibly sophisticated threat actor its researchers had discovered, which according to the Kaspersky Lab, had been active for the last two decades.
Big data machine learning is not only disrupting edge delivery, edge compute and edge security but also the network. The traditional methods used by CDNs to deliver packets between locals is likely nearing its end, being replaced by methods that
Today, Distil Networks published its fourth annual bad bot report, which found that malicious bots attack 96% of all websites that require login credentials. Using anonymized data from domains across Distil’s global network, the 2017 Bad Bot Report studied hundreds
We have to commend folks like Krebs because writing about hacks day-in and day-out requires a strong mental psychology. We stopped writing about hacks a while back, however, we’re going to break our own rule and write about the latest
Bot detection and mitigation is the the hottest market within our industry. Finding effective ways to manage sophisticated human-like bots is becoming more difficult, due to the advanced techniques being used by attackers, which can imitate browser activity that seems
DeepMind, the Google-owned startup behind AlphaGo, has announced that it is open-sourcing its flagship platform, DeepMind Lab, to spur further research and innovation in artificial intelligence. The long-term goal is to eventually develop sophisticated cognitive systems that can learn to
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a free and open community with the aim of providing clarity and unbiased coverage of software security issues, and creating a common space for clear communication about them. To facilitate such discussion,
There are companies in the bot mitigation sector that have built platforms which can tell good bots from bad bots. Google bots are good bots, whereas bots that steal credit card data are bad bots. However, bots are getting more advanced all
BioCatch recently announced its next-gen behavioral biometrics platform, which has been developed for use with online and mobile applications for enterprises. Behavioral biometrics is a burgeoning field of study given the growing threat of online fraud and identity theft. Rather
The 1.2Tbps DDoS attack against Dyn is the tip of the iceberg. According to some sources, script kiddies used 100,000 infected devices to launch the attack against Dyn. Now for the scary part: if amateurs were able to cause this
The latest DDoS attacks against Dyn and Brian Krebs are a defining moment for the CDN industry. Up until last year, large-scale DDoS attacks weren’t much of a concern to content delivery companies. Fast forward to today, and in the
It’s bad, really really bad. A hacker launched a major DDOS attack on Dyn and knocked them offline for hours. Dyn is one of the largest, if not the largest pure-play DNS provider in the world. And if Dyn goes
A Quarkslab security audit of open source file and disk encryption package VeraCrypt concluded that a total of eight critical vulnerabilities, three medium flaws and 15 additional low-priority bugs have been identified.Â
