The week in security: As bugs persist, maybe Australians really should care more about privacy
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Australia’s government may have been moving to tighten data privacy and access laws but Australians
David Braue | 24 Sep | Read more
Web accelerator and CDN provider Cloudflare has become such a critical component of the web that when it goes down, so do many others.
A recent spate of damaging DNS-level attacks was promulgated with “terrifying” ease by cybercriminals who leveraged compromised access credentials rather than even having to hack the DNS servers themselves, a DNS expert has warned.
David Braue | 01 Jul | Read more
Australian security and infrastructure managers were scrambling to contain an explosion of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks after April saw a more than four-fold jump in the number of DDoS attacks directed at our shores, according to new figures.
David Braue | 08 May | Read more
It was perhaps eerily appropriate that, during the week of the Commonwealth Games, records were falling both at the venues and in the world of cybersecurity.
David Braue | 16 Apr | Read more
With so many threats emerging on a regular basis, the security landscape is only getting more threatening.
David Braue | 13 Mar | Read more
The pressure on government agencies to secure themselves has never been stronger – and yet, even as the world’s networks face a new threat from record-setting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, damning audits of government security policies suggest that actual practice remains well behind best practice.
David Braue | 09 Mar | Read more
Security records are getting harder and harder to set, but a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack did that as GitHub was
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
Although the strength and number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in Australia dropped precipitously during 2017, one expert warns that the change in attack patterns actually reflects an intentional move by threat actors seeking to do as much damage as possible in ever-smaller windows of opportunity.
David Braue | 25 Jan | Read more
DDoS botnet bandits lose their Bitcoin fortune in click-fraud plea deals.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) specialists can shut down an attack in 90 seconds once it’s detected – but if you take more than 3 hours to respond you’re likely to be compromised by a related attack in the meantime, warns a security expert who is seeing easy-to-source DDoS attacks becoming smokescreens for brazen data theft.
David Braue | 17 Oct | Read more
Australian organisations are being hit by over 450 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks every day and fully a quarter of them are coming from domestic sources, analysts have warned as figures show DDoS attacks making a resurgence after nearly a year of decline.
David Braue | 28 Sep | Read more
ENISA set for a permanent mandate to provide cybersecurity services to EU member states.
In a new type of DDoS attack, skilled bad actors use pulse wave DDoS assaults to exploit weaknesses in appliance-first hybrid mitigation solutions and pin down multiple targets.
"Code reuse is vulnerability reuse", warns security firm after finding critical flaw in a third-party code library.