US man arrested over Aussie DDoS attacks
A 37 year-old US citizen has been arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
A 37 year-old US citizen has been arrested in connection with serious offences relating to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Who could forget #censusfail last year? After a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and concerns over potential loss of data during the 2016 Census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Census site was shut down for days. Once it was eventually restored on 11 August 2016, it was successfully used by millions of Australians to submit their census data.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suffered a humiliating failure of its systems last August, which was largely attributed to its inability to manage security and operational risk of a key business system.
It's still unclear who pulled off Friday's massive internet disruption, but the malware largely responsible for the cyber attack has since been found assaulting new targets -- possibly video gamers.
A Chinese electronics component maker is recalling 4.3 million internet-connected camera products from the U.S. market amid claims they may have played a role in Friday's massive internet disruption.
Leading Australian media, banks, airline, insurance, retail and hotel websites suffer following triple attack.
The attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn today were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of.
The source code for a trojan that infected hundreds of thousands of internet-of-things devices and used them to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks was published online, paving the way for more such botnets.
The botnets made up of compromised IoT devices are now capable of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks of unprecedented scale.
The recent Census technology debacle proves that, once again, the people responsible are getting off scot-free and face little in the way of scrutiny.
Criminals are tapping Web services advertised as tools to stress test customers’ networks but using them to launch DDoS attacks against their victims, according to Akamai.
Margee Abrams examines some emerging trends that are likely to affect DDoS security requirements.
When businesses are hit by noticeable DDoS attacks, three-quarters of the time those attacks are accompanied by another security incident, according to Kaspersky Lab.
The DARPA program, called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) looks to :
• thwart DDoS attacks by dispersing cyber assets (physically and/or logically) to complicate adversarial targeting
• disguise the characteristics and behaviors of those assets to confuse or deceive the adversary
• blunt the effects of attacks that succeed in penetrating other defensive measures by using adaptive mitigation techniques on endpoints such as mission‐critical servers.
DDOS attacks in Australia are shorter in duration that in other countries but still just as dangerous, according to new data from Arbor Networks.