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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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A Flurry of Recent Cybersecurity Activity from the Trump Administration

Data Matters

Soon after he took office, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 13800, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure. Recently, however, this relative calm abruptly ended with a flurry of cybersecurity-related activity. Botnet Report.

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Observations on the Cybersecurity Executive Order and Presidential Policy Directive

Hunton Privacy

Industry has good reason to pay attention. Industry has good reason to pay attention. This is a dramatic change from President Obama’s first pronouncement on cybersecurity just five months after taking office. It requires agencies to report on the extent to which the private sector is complying with the framework.