Cloudera and Intel recently announced the donation of their collaborated open source project Apache Spot to the Apache Software Foundation. Originally created by Intel back in February and launched under the name Open Network Insight (ONI) project, the effort has
Brian Krebs, whose website recently underwent a 620 Gbps DDoS attack, reported that an identified botnet trojan has been confirmed to be the malware responsible. Recently, the source code for the botnet (DDoS Malware) was made public on the Hackerforums
Software containers are becoming a major part of application development due to their ability to divide applications and place them on various physical and virtual machines. Containers offers flexibility, easier workload management, and aids developers in moving essential code/library tools
One nifty function Chrome offers users of its web browser is an indicator that marks a connection as secure or non-secure via an icon in the address bar. Chrome has long refrained from labelling HTTP connections (HTTP Pages) as non-secure,
Researchers from Princeton University, Karlstad University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology published a report detailing how adversaries can combine monitored DNS requests with known website fingerprinting attacks to create a new type of DNS-enhanced correlation attack to reveal Tor
The 1Tbps DDoS attack is a total game changer for the edge security business model. For starters, we can throw away the idea of small companies becoming a DDoS mitigation service provider. Unfortunately, the DDoS mitigation business is going the
After the two massive DDoS attacks last week, it’s time to re-think the DDoS Mitigation architecture strategy. Brian Krebs got hit with a 620Gbps DDoS attack and OVH with a 799Gbps attack. The interesting part – the 799Gbps attack was
On Sept 22, the OpenSSL Project released patches to fix 14 vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, including versions 1.1.0a, 1.0.2i and 1.0.1u. One of these patched flaws includes a high severity vulnerability that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Given the
Google Project Shield provides DDoS protection for verified journalists, journal publications, and non-profit organizations. Best of all, the service is pro-bono. Security journalist Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security is one notable customer when this past week, Krebs’ website was
Security journalist Brian Krebs has been the prime target of a major attack and the new weapon for DDoS attacks – IoT devices.Â
AWS released an updated version of its AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency Whitepaper, a guide for developers building new apps or looking to optimize their current architecture for DDoS resiliency. In addition, the whitepaper goes into detail to advise
To establish a smooth buying process while addressing online fraud prevention needs, e-retailer James Allen has retained the services of Forter. The threat of fraud can create delays by necessitating manual reviews and identity confirmation, which, in turn, slow down
With the continued threat of cyber crimes together with an increasing demand for cloud services, there is expected significant growth in the cloud security market. According to IDC, cloud security accounts for 50% as an area of immense growth in
PerimeterX, a security based startup has just come out of stealth mode. They have developed a security service called the PerimeterX Bot Defender that protects online companies from automated attacks, including bot attacks, DDoS attacks, zero-days threats, brute force, price
In October of 2015, Amazon introduced two new security features: AWS WAF and Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector is a web application scanner that scans for vulnerabilities within the AWS environment. From a competitive standpoint, the Inspector tool is one of
