A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Equifax Security Breach Is A Complete Disaster… And Will Almost Certainly Get Worse
‘Pulse wave’ DDoS – another way of blasting sites offline
If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that any new way of DDoSing will reveal that there are a huge number of undefended devices online.
It’s baaaack: Locky ...
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The Mirai and Bashlight botnets have caused quite a stir in the cybersecurity and IT realms. The easy ability to round up and deploy millions of devices in a botnet using automated tools has raised the bar. How we respond to DDoS attacks will have to change.
I was tempted to post this article late in October, when Brian Krebs suffered with the DDoS attack on his website, or when the Mirai botnet attack on DynDNS was in full swing, but decided to wait it out until after the election, in case it turns out that the Dyn attack was a precursor to an attack to disrupt the elections. And as of today, it appears that it was ...
On Wednesday we looked at the obvious, visual symptoms of a malware infection. Today we will explore some changes in performance that can indicate that your computer is infected.