Denial-of-Service

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already being applied to diverse use cases, from consumer-oriented devices such as voice-controlled personal assistants and self-directed vacuum cleaners, through to groundbreaking business applications that optimise everything from drug discovery to financial portfolio management. Naturally, observes Delfina Chain, there’s growing interest…

Radware, the provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, has released its 2019 State of Web Application Security Report which finds that, while organisations shift their applications to microservices environments, the responsibility for securing these environments shifts as well. The rapid expansion of the…

A suspected Denial of Service (DoS) attack resulted in Wikipedia experiencing intermittent outages in the early hours of Saturday 7 September. Organisations worried about the threat of DoS attacks are now recommended to read guidance just published by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The…

Threats come and go, but one thing remains the same: the ability of cyber criminals to adapt to circumstances. A brief decline of interest in ransomware as criminals focused their attention on cryptojacking during the previous year appears to have come to an end and…

A new study orchestrated by DigiCert, the provider of TLS/SSL, PKI and Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions, reveals that enterprises have begun sustaining significant monetary losses stemming from the lack of good practices as they move forward with incorporating the IoT into their business…

An in-depth survey conducted by the BSI’s Cyber Security and Information Resilience Centre of Excellence in conjunction with GovNewsDirect has unearthed a range of inconsistencies in terms of how prepared the UK’s public sector organisations really are for potential cyber attacks and data losses. In…

For the first time, the results of the latest British Crime Survey issued by the Office for National Statistics highlight the fact that fraud and cyber crime are the most prevalent forms of criminality perpetrated against individuals and businesses across England and Wales. The introduction of questions around…

Applied Risk, a specialist in the development of industrial control systems security, has announced the launch of its ICS Security Lab to help protect industrial assets and infrastructure from costly cyber attacks. The lab has identified its first vulnerability in Moxa EDS-405A/EDS-408A-managed Ethernet switches, allowing attackers to…

Scanning the latest Information Security Breaches Survey1, it would seem that 90% of large-scale organisations and 74% of smaller businesses have suffered some form of cyber security breach. On that basis, becoming a cyber security victim seems a near certainty for many. Paul Heffernan offers some…

Verizon’s 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report reveals that cyber attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. However, many cyber criminals are still relying on decades-old techniques such as phishing and hacking. According to this year’s report, the bulk of cyber attacks (70% of them, in fact) use a combination…