Oct 27, 2016
Last week saw a series of DDoS attacks levelled against the DYN DNS. Allison Nixon, director of security research at Flashpoint, unpacks the event. On October 21, 2016, a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Dyn DNS impacted the availability...
Oct 24, 2016
The realm of the internet has changed a lot in the recent years, writes Ondrej Kubovic, ESET IT security specialist. Before, browsing online meant using search engines, looking for specific content or reading your favourite news websites. Nowadays, social networks,...
Oct 19, 2016
Today, hackers are using DDoS as a means to an end, a smokescreen hiding a much more damaging, malicious intent that could see sensitive business data compromised, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks Despite the ever-changing arsenal of today’s...
Oct 18, 2016
The number of cyber attacks being carried out globally is continuously growing, and has seen significant acceleration in the last five years, writes Mark McCallum, chief technology officer of Orange Business Services. A recent study by PwC found that the number of...
Oct 14, 2016
There has been a notable rise of phishing attacks – a widespread problem, posing a huge risk to individuals and organisations. It is something we all need to be aware of, as these types of attacks are not going to go away anytime soon, says Steve Flynn, director...
Oct 10, 2016
Full Packet Capture (FPC). Those three little words are enough to make most security analysts salivate at the prospect of finding and detecting attacks. According to David Gray, practice consultant at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, back in the days before anyone...
