by crissly | Apr 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
A cryptocurrency platform was recently on the receiving end of one of the biggest distributed denial of service attacks ever recorded, after threat actors bombarded it with 15.3 million requests, the content-delivery network Cloudflare said. DDoS attacks can be...
by crissly | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Previously unknown “zero-day” software vulnerabilities are mysterious and intriguing as a concept. But they’re even more noteworthy when hackers are spotted actively exploiting the novel software flaws in the wild before anyone else knows about them. As...
by crissly | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Since Russia launched its full-blown invasion of Ukraine in late February, a wave of predictable cyberattacks has accompanied that offensive, striking everything from Ukrainian government agencies to satellite networks, with mixed results. Less expected, however, was...
by crissly | Mar 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a core defense that is among the most effective at preventing account takeovers. In addition to requiring that users provide a username and password, MFA ensures they must also use an additional factor—be it a fingerprint, physical...
by crissly | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the week since the digital extortion group Lapsus$ first revealed that it had breached the identity management platform Okta through one of the company’s subprocessors, customers and organizations across the tech industry have been scrambling to understand...
