by Taylor Smith | Apr 5, 2018 | ISMS Consulting
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In a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the attacker seeks to make it impossible to deliver the targeted online service. The attack does this by blocking legitimate access to one or more components of the service: servers,...
by Taylor Smith | Feb 1, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
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Security researchers at the Romanian cybersecurity and antivirus software vendor Bitdefender have spotted what looks like the most sophisticated and potentially deadly botnet yet—possibly signaling a change in how malicious botnets...
by Richard Barrus | Jan 15, 2016 | InfoSec Strategies
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Recently one of our clients, a local government entity, was the target of a long and intense distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack—a deliberate attempt to make a website unavailable to legitimate users by overwhelming it with...
by Richard Barrus | Oct 20, 2015 | InfoSec Strategies
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In recent network penetration testing we’ve been seeing a lot of vulnerabilities around companies’ Domain Name System (DNS) servers. With nearly all networked applications (including web browsing, email, eCommerce and IP telephony)...
