FBI-Led Global Effort Takes Down Massive Qakbot Botnet
After more than 15 years in the wild, the Qakbot botnet, a zombie network of over 700,000 computers worldwide, is hanging on the FBI’s trophy wall for now.
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Abnormal Security: Microsoft Tops List of Most-Impersonated Brands in Phishing Exploits
A new study found that 4.31% of phishing attacks mimicked Microsoft, far ahead of the second most-spoofed brand PayPal.
What makes a good ASM solution stand out
In this Help Net Security interview, Patrice Auffret, CTO at Onyphe, explains how the traditional perimeter-based security view is becoming obsolete. He suggests that organizations should redefine their attack surface concept and discusses proactive me…
IEEE 802.11az provides security enhancements, solves longstanding problems
In this Help Net Security interview, Jonathan Segev, IEEE 802.11 Task Group (TG) Chair of next-generation positioning (TGaz) at IEEE, discusses IEEE 802.11az. The new standard will enable accuracy to less than 0.1 meters, which is a significant improve…
CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan: An Important Step To Secure Critical Infrastructure
Statement by Eric Wenger, Senior Director, Technology Policy, Government Affairs: CISA’s new Cybersecurity Strategic Plan lays out a clear vision for how the federal government can better secure and defend U.S. critical infrastructure through close, persistent private-public sector collaboration. CISA’s plan correctly focuses on ensuring that critical technology we rely upon in our daily lives […]
Brave Aims To Curb Practice of Websites That Port Scan Visitors
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Brave browser will take action against websites that snoop on visitors by scanning their open Internet ports or accessing other network resources that can expose personal information. Starting …
Businesses count the cost of network downtime
Fewer than one in ten CIOs can claim that they have avoided a network outage, according to Opengear. This finding is among new research by Opengear of both CIOs and network engineers globally. The scale and frequency of network outages is revealed by 9…
Cisco Silicon One Breaks the 51.2 Tbps Barrier
Today we expand the Cisco Silicon One™ portfolio with two new 5 nm devices targeting web-scale spine roles and Ethernet-based artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) deployments. Cisco Silicon One devices now span from 3.2 Tbps to 51.2 Tbps, with a converged architecture and software development kit for true convergence without compromise.
Google Fiber Is Looking For Organizations To Test Its 20-Gig Internet Service
Google is looking to partner with businesses, education institutions, and non-profits to help test its 20 Gig symmetrical internet service. TechSpot reports: Nick Saporito, head of multi-gig & commercial product at Google, said they are only lookin…
Cisco fixes critical flaws in Small Business Series Switches
Nine vulnerabilities – 4 of them critical – have been found in a variety of Cisco Small Business Series Switches. PoC exploit code is available (but not public), and there is no indication that they are being exploited in the wild. About th…