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Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks last weekend, most of them ranging from 50 to 70 million requests per second (RPS) – and the largest one exceeding 71 million RPS. “This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35 percent higher than the previous reported record of 46 million RPS […]
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Andrej Karpathy is a former research scientist and founding member of OpenAI. He was also the senior director of AI at Tesla. Lately, he has been using Copilot, which leverages GPT-3 to generate code. He tweeted this about it: “Nice read on reverse engineering of GitHub Copilot. Copilot has dramatically accelerated my coding, it’s hard […]
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Cloud environments and application connectivity have become a critical part of many organizations’ digital transformation initiatives. In fact, nearly 40% of North American and European-based enterprises adopted industry-specific cloud platforms in 202…
Microsoft’s February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 75 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated critical, and three (all rated important) that are being exploited. “This is only the second Patch Tuesday of the year, and we have already tripled the number of weaponized threats that need to be fixed in this release,” Syxsense CEO and founder Ashley […]
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Zcaler plans to acquire Israeli startup Canonic Security to expand into the red-hot software supply chain security business.
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Virtual patching uses policies, rules and security tools to block access to a vulnerability until it can be patched. Zero-day threats and legacy systems are two ways that vulnerabilities can be created for which no patch may exist for some time, if ever. In those cases, security teams can block a potential attack path until […]
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Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will change the default security configuration for all new S3 buckets. For new buckets created after this date, S3 Block Public Access will be enabled, and S3 access control lists (ACLs) will be disabled. These new def…
The use of IoT devices in enterprises is growing exponentially. A critical concern is deploying IoT devices without requisite security controls. Being a leader in both security and networking, Cisco continues to bring security closer to networking.
Late last week, unknown attackers launched a widespread ransomware attack hitting VMware ESXi hypervisors via CVE-2021-21974, an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows them to run exploit code remotely, without prior authentication. Patches for C…
Dependence on the cloud in the modern era is no secret. The growth in cloud applications for both professional and personal use has proved unrelenting as critical applications and services are made solely available through cloud access. In a press release, Gartner predicted a 20.4% increase in end-user spend on cloud applications in 2022, and forecasts another 20% growth in 2023. As spend increases, so does availability, creating an ongoing chicken-and-egg dynamic that will only strengthen the need for robust security measures. The Importance of Cloud Security Despite its ubiquity, cloud adoption remains a point of concern for many organizations….