The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

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. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. Here we are in 2019 and the same attack strategy continues to persist.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ARMA defines data as “Any symbols or characters that represent raw facts or figures and form the basis of information” (ARMA 2016, p 12). That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). IDC estimated the world created.16 16 ZB (zettabytes) of data in 2006, then 2.83

Digital transformation 59

Digital transformation Blockchain IT Computer and Electronics 59

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

While Microsoft released a series of security updates on March 2, in order to address the discovered vulnerabilities, they felt the need to simplify the mitigation process for their customers in order to attain herd immunity across the world. It is important to note that the simplified tool is not a replacement for the security updates.

Ransomware 57

Ransomware Authentication Financial Services Military 57