SC Magazine reports that mobile devices were enlisted into a DDoS botnet and delivered a max hit rate of 275,000 HTTP GETS/minute to the target. The total hits were around 4.5B, so that works out to about 7 hits/mobile device. The theory is that an ad-serving network was used to deliver a malicious Javascript attack…
The “Internet of Things” (IoT to the cognoscenti) has been around for a while, but is gaining prominence now as almost every technology-based product that can be integrated with Internet access is in fact being integrated for Internet access. The reasons for doing this are not always compelling…but ‘smart home’ tech has been around for decades (remember the X-10 home…
September 28, 2015 – Nashville, Tenn. – Magnus Cloud announced today general availability of version 2.0 of its cloud-based service that represents a significant breakthrough in defending against the most dangerous cyberattacks, including sophisticated bot-based attacks at Layer 7/application layer. Magnus offers the first and only active countermeasure solution at scale, removing bots from the field…
In 1999 two colonels in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) published their treatise, “Unrestricted Warfare” which details asymmetric strategies for defeating opponents that have technological or numerical superiority over your own forces. Cyberwarfare is explicitly called out, identifying the internet and computers in general as a new, fifth domain of warfare (in addition to land,…
Tracy Kitten’s recent article on DDoS for Bitcoins (DD4BC) shows the evolution of DDoS attacks into a form of criminal extortion. The advice of law enforcement agencies is: “Don’t pay. File a complaint. Contact your ISP.” This is the online version of the classic protection racket, except that instead of Lewie the Leg Breaker visiting…