Hacking and Cybersecurity
Trends to Look Out for in 2024 By Yashin Manraj, CEO, Pvotal Technologies For cybersecurity professionals, remaining effective requires staying…
Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into…
Cyber Operations Intensify in Middle East, With Israel the Main Target
Cyberattacks tripled over the past year in Israel, making it the most targeted nation in 2023, as cyber operations become…
New Tool Shields Organizations From NXDOMAIN Attacks
Akamai joins a growing list of security vendors aiming to strengthen companies' DNS defenses.
Zero Trust Matures, Insider Threat Programs Take Off, and AI Doesn’t Change Things that Much Yet: 2024 Cybersecurity Predictions
By Chris Scheels, VP of Product Marketing at Gurucul How will security analytics, machine learning/AI, and applied data science in…
New HTTP/2 DoS attack can crash web servers with a single connection
Newly discovered HTTP/2 protocol vulnerabilities called "CONTINUATION Flood" can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with…
New ‘Loop DoS’ attack may impact up to 300,000 online systems
A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large…
‘Lucifer’ Botnet Turns Up the Heat on Apache Hadoop Servers
More than 3,000 unique attacks hitting Hadoop and Druid honeypots in just the past month indicate an attacker testing phase,…
No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack
A widely reported story that 3 million electric toothbrushes were hacked with malware to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS)…
UAE Government Cyber Chief: We Face 50K Cyberattacks Daily
The Emirates see phishing emails, DDoS attacks, and ransomware, as well as port scans, regularly.