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GUEST ESSAY: JPMorgan’s $200 million in fines stems from all-too-common compliance failures

The Last Watchdog

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. The ever-changing landscape of rapid communication via instant messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Signal, WeChat, Telegram, and others, has left regulated industries to find a balance between compliance and efficient client communication.

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A new DDoS technique abuses HTML5 Hyperlink Audit Ping in massive attacks

Security Affairs

In this case, attackers used a common HTML5 attribute, the <a> tag ping, to trick these users to unwittingly participate in a major DDoS attack that flooded one web site with approximately 70 million requests in four hours.” This was the first case of a DDoS attack using the <a> tag ping attribute.

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