by Taylor Smith | Apr 5, 2018 | ISMS Consulting
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, networks, applications, devices or...
by Taylor Smith | Feb 1, 2018 | InfoSec Strategies
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 will now be utilized by cyber...
by Michael Gargiullo | Jan 15, 2016 | InfoSec Strategies
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 bogus traffic from multiple sources....
by Bhaumik Shah | Oct 20, 2015 | InfoSec Strategies
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) relying heavily on DNS, and more and...
