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‘Spike’ toolkit scales multi-vector DDoS with Windows, Linux hosts
Akamai's PLXsert researchers analyzed the new DDoS toolkit.
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Linux botnet observed launching powerful DDoS attacks
Threat actors are leveraging a botnet made up of infected Linux machines to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Gaming industry has become popular target of credential stuffing attacks: study
A company’s recent analysis of credential abuse activity over a 17-month period uncovered roughly 55 billion credential stuffing attack attempts against various online services, roughly 12 billion of which targeted the gaming industry. Researchers at Akamai Technologies revealed the data in their latest State of the Internet/Security report, which specifically focuses on web attacks and…
Reboot Leadership Awards 2018
Thought Leader – Andy Ellis
Category: Thought Leader Name: Andy Ellis Title: CSO Company: Akamai Technologies Why nominated: A recognized visionary who predicted companies would rely on cloud-based applications Akamai CSO Andy Ellis has parlayed his deep understanding of how to use the company’s content delivery network to guard against web-based security attacks into building new functionality into security offerings, pinpointing security threats, enhancing…
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Botnet of Joomla servers furthers DDoS-for-hire scheme
A vulnerable Google Maps plug-in for Joomla allowed attackers to spoof the source of DDoS attacks.
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Report: DDoS attacks down, gov’t increasingly a target
In its quarterly "State of the Internet" report Akamai observed 283 DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2014.
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Bill Gates/bot malware family used to launch DDoS attacks
The Bill Gates/bot family of malware continues to be used to facilitate distributed denial of service attacks, according to a threat advisory from Akamai's Security Intelligence Research Team.
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Attackers leveraging WS-Discovery protocol to amplify attacks
A recently discovered distributed denial of service technique that abuses the Web Services Dynamic Discovery specification is being executed in the wild by multiple threat actors to amplify the effects of their attacks, researchers have warned. The technique is a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Amplification technique that involves spoofing requests to the WS-Discovery service. WS-Discovery…
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The Month: Briefs – Industry round-up
Cedilla Systems, a leading UK Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner, is to be acquired by Watermark, a Qurius NV company. Watermark merged with Qurius in December 2006 to form the largest Microsoft Dynamics partner in Europe. Cedilla is based in Greater Manchester and had an annual turnover of £2.7 million in 2006. Mike Dickson, managing director of Cedilla, said: "This announcement is great news for Cedilla; it will enable us to provide a broader range of Microsoft solutions and services to our customers."
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