http://www.darkreading.com/cloud/inside-a-vicious-ddos-attack/a/d-id/1321286 has the full story – it is worth your time for you to read it. The technical overview by the CEO is the following (from article): { The assailants hit with 10- to 15 gigabytes per second (Gbps) of traffic – 250 times our standard rate. When I called my peers in banking and … Read more
InformationWeek Dark Reading has another article bemoaning the proliferation of Cybersecurity products: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/in-the-cyber-realm-lets-be-knights-not-blacksmiths/a/d-id/1321176 Yes in a couple of weeks (at BlackHat USA 8/1- 8/6) there will be many new products touting some new way to do the same basic items: SIEM -Security Information event Management and protection. Detect the bad and delete it. Most of … Read more
The X-force Blog has a good post about Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud (#28 in Security analyzed page) http://securityintelligence.com/platform-as-a-service-paas-cloud-side-channel-attacks-part-ii/#.VZq8NflglmM The Platform as a Service is a certain kind of Cloud service. In some cloud services your data resides on machines dedicated for your company (IaaS) – Infrastructure as a Service. In PaaS … Read more
All companies on the Internet have a firewall, even an older filtering firewall. here is a simplistic diagram of Internet – Modem – Firewall – Local Switch – Computers on network. Do you know what your firewall looks like from the Internet? When a hacker looks at your network how does your firewall actually … Read more
If you are not in the IT field who would understand all the details of a potential hack-attack, here are some headlines in news today that may not create a full picture: http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/ddos-attackers-exploiting-80s-era-routing-protocol/d/d-id/1321138? Which means the old RIPv1 or Routing Information Protocol has abilities that can be exploited. If you have an old router, or … Read more