This is actually where I came in, nearly 30 years ago. The first malware outbreak for which I provided consultancy was Dr. Popp’s extraordinary AIDS Trojan, which rendered a victim’s data inaccessible until a ‘software lease renewal’ payment was made. And for a long time afterwards, there was not much else that could be called ransomware, unless you count threats made against organizations of persistent DDoS (Distributed Denial...
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SonicWall recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017 and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year. “The cyber arms race affects every government, business, organization and individual. It cannot be won by any one of us,” said SonicWall CEO Bill Conner. “Our latest proprietary data and findings show a series of strategic attacks and countermeasures as the cyber...
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প্রযুক্তির এই যুগে সবচেয়ে জনপ্রিয় যোগাযোগমাধ্যম হচ্ছে ফেসবুক। পরিবার, বন্ধুবান্ধবসহ বিভিন্ন জনের সঙ্গে যোগাযোগের জন্য, বিশেষ করে যারা দেশের বাইরে অবস্থান করেন, তাদের জন্য ফেসবুকে যোগাযোগের বিকল্প নেই। কিন্তু অনেকের কাছে এই ফেসবুক কখনো কখনো হয়ে ওঠে আতঙ্কের নাম। পুরুষদের পাশাপাশি নিয়মিত ফেবসুক ব্যবহার করেন অনেক নারী। পুরুষদের চেয়ে ফেসবুক ব্যবহারের ক্ষেত্রে নারীদের সবচেয়ে বেশি সচেতন হতে হয়। সামান্য অসাবধানতার কারণে যে কোনো মুহূর্তে হ্যাক...
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Environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Issue memcached is being used in DDoS amplification attacks I’m concerned about news of DDoS attacks using memcached Resolution Red Hat is aware of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) amplification attacks being performed by exploiting memcached servers exposed to the public Internet. These attacks take advantage of memcached communication using the UDP protocol for...
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UPDATE: As of 2018-03-02 ( Afternoon Update), more attack using the memcached reflection vector have been unleashed on the Internet. As shared by Akamai Technologies “memcached-fueled 1.3 Tbps Attacks,” the application factors are “Internet Impacting.” Mitigation and Remediation Efforts are reducing the number of potential memcached reflectors. Please keep up the good work. Operators are asked to port filter (Exploitable Port Filters), rate limits the port 11211 UDP traffic (ingress and...
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