A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:01:43 +0000
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here’s how it stayed online.
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How to Turn Off Facebook’s Face Recognition Features
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:05:00 +0000
Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.
Read MoreBlast from the past: stowaway Virut delivered with Chinese DDoS bot
Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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| A recent Chinese drive-by attack dropped Virut, an ancient virus that’s been out of commission since 2013. So what was it doing in this modern attack? Categories: Tags: avzhanAvzhan DDoS botChinese drive-by attackDDoS botvirusvirut |
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Read MoreTrend Micro at MWC: Securing Our Mobile, Connected World
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:58:59 +0000
Time flies pretty fast in tech. When Trend Micro was founded nearly 30 years ago, mobile phones were pretty clunky, prohibitively expensive and not in the least bit “smart.” Fast forward to today and the device in your pocket has more compute power than the NASA machines that put man on the moon. Over the…
Hold on to your wallets — it’s tax (scam) season again
Credit to Author: Sarah Pike| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:26:49 +0000
With many people filing their taxes online, cybercriminals focus on making money with tax-related phishing schemes.
Read MoreTransatlantic Cable podcast, episode 26
Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:45:55 +0000
In this week’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a breach impacting Massachusetts tax payers, alien hackers, contactless payment fraud and more.
Read MoreRIG malvertising campaign uses cryptocurrency theme as decoy
Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:45:10 +0000
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| This malvertising campaign uses a popular cryptocurrency theme to redirect users to the RIG exploit kit. Categories: Tags: cryptocurrenciesmalvertisingRIGRIGEK |
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Read MoreProviding a New Classification for Data Center Types and a Context for Edge Data Centers
Credit to Author: Damien Wells| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:00:08 +0000
Prefacing his keynote presentation “Driving the next 80% improvement in data center performance,” which Kevin Brown delivered at DatacenterDynamics Zettastructure in London, the SVP of Innovation & CTO for Schneider Electric’s IT… Read more »
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