Oct 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
The recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack on KrebsOnSecurity.com has security implications which are wider reaching that you need to consider. The internet of things or IoT, has the potential to be a massive DDoS weapon and wielding that weapon might eventually hit small businesses with the only obvious options being pay lots of money for protection, or ask Google (alphabet) for help. There are other options!
Nov 7, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Liberia was hit by a massive DDoS attack, which succeeded in taking most of the country offline. It was revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October and the attack on...
Oct 22, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
On Friday (21 October), cyber-criminals mounted a global DDoS attacks on internet services firm Dyn. While it was not immediately clear who was responsible. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were both said to be...
Oct 25, 2016 | Malware and Exploits
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
Apr 18, 2013 | Bitdender Products + News, Malware and Exploits
According to Security Vender BifDefender and Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity.com – WordPress websites are under heavy attack… Attackers are aiming at blogs running poorly-secured WordPress configurations in an attempt to create a powerful botnet that,...
