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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

In March 2013, several impossibly massive waves of nuisance requests – peaking as high as 300 gigabytes per second— swamped Spamhaus , knocking the anti-spam organization off line for extended periods. This attacker easily located IoT devices that used the manufacturers’ default security setting.

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Vietnam-linked Bismuth APT leverages coin miners to stay under the radar

Security Affairs

The OceanLotus APT group is a state-sponsored group that has been active since at least 2013. Since at least 2014, experts at FireEye have observed APT32 targeting foreign corporations with an interest in Vietnam’s manufacturing, consumer products, and hospitality sectors. .

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). DRM is used by publishers, manufacturers and IP owners for digital content and device monitoring” (Techopedia 2021). IDC estimated the world created.16 16 ZB (zettabytes) of data in 2006, then 2.83 The information explosion is shown in Figure 2.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage.