2019 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today Imperva Research Labs, made up of senior researchers and industry experts who have been delivering sound and valid advice for over 15 years, is releasing a brand new Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. The report is a statistical analysis of 3,643 network layer DDoS attacks throughout 2019...

Hackers exploiting vulnerability in smart doors to launch DDoS attacks

By Waqas Smart door and building access control systems are currently the top targets of hackers to launch DDoS attacks distributed denial-of-service attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers exploiting vulnerability in smart doors to launch DDoS attacks...

Imperva Received Top Scores in Gartner’s “Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls”

The web application landscape is constantly changing, and the tools needed for the best application security protection need to change with the landscape. With Imperva’s recent improvements in API Security, Bot Management, DDoS and Cloud WAF, it’s easy to see why we are among the highest-scored...

LoRaWAN for IoT: Beware Encryption Misconfigurations and Security Pitfalls

UPDATE The LoRaWAN protocol, which efficiently supports low-power wireless devices over wide area networks, has become standard in the world of the industrial internet of things IoT. One of its benefits is its support for end-to-end encryption. However, researchers are warning that while LoRaWAN...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for ntp (EulerOS-SA-2017-1023)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Owner of DDoS mitigation firm launched DDoS attacks on others

By Waqas The owner of Cybersecurity firm BackConnect turned from cyber defender to cyber criminal... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Owner of DDoS mitigation firm launched DDoS attacks on others...

Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices

A hacker has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers and other Internet of Things IoT devices online on a popular hacking forum in what’s being touted as the biggest leak of Telnet passwords to date, according to a published report. The leak—revealed in a repor...

DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Tucker Preston, 22, of Macon, Ga., pleaded guilty last week in a New Jersey court to one...

How companies can prepare for a heightened threat environment

With high levels of political unrest in various parts of the world, it’s no surprise we’re also in a period of increased cyber threats. In the past, a company’s name, political affiliations, or religious affiliations might push the risk needle higher. However, in the current environment any compa...

Imperva Launches New Data Center in Argentina

Imperva’s New Expansion We are happy to announce that Imperva has launched our new Buenos Aires data center. We’re thrilled to bring our leadership in cybersecurity plus enhanced performance and decreased latency to Argentina and the surrounding countries in the region. Our new data center is now...

How to prevent a rootkit attack

If you're ever at the receiving end of a rootkit attack, then you'll understand why they are considered one of the most dangerous cyberthreats today. Rootkits are a type of malware designed to stay undetected on your computer. Cybercriminals use rootkits to remotely access and control your machin...

Iran Cyber Threat Update

ARCHIVED STORY Iran Cyber Threat Update By Trellix · January 08, 2020 Recent political tensions in the Middle East region have led to significant speculation of increased cyber-related activities. McAfee is on a heightened state of alert to monitor the evolving threats and rapidly implement...

Automated Attacks Call for Automated Protection – 2020 Trend #3

In our blog series on security trends, we’ve been diving deeper into the five security predictions for 2020 made by our CTO Kunal Anand during his fireside chat with Imperva CMO David Gee. Watch it here. As I'll discuss in my upcoming blog on defense-in-depth and reducing risk, being “connected”...

HackerOne: profile-picture name parameter with large value lead to DoS for other users and programs on the platform

Summary: The issue persists as there are no text limitations for profile-picture name while uploading the profile-picture, these heavy text names can cause denial of service on different pages of hackerone. Description: I was checking the profile picture upload feature of hackerone and found out...

Top 10 IoT Disasters of 2019

IoT Disasters 2019 Though more light was shed around insecure Internet of Things IoT devices in 2019 – consequently leading to more calls for regulation– connected devices themselves seemingly stayed just as insecure. From privacy concerns in smart home devices, to botnets evolving to launch...

CVE-2019-19922

kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfsquotaus is used e.g., with Kubernetes, allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. In other words, althoug...

Code injection

kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfsquotaus is used e.g., with Kubernetes, allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. In other words, althoug...

CVE-2019-19922

kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfsquotaus is used e.g., with Kubernetes, allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. In other words, althoug...

Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps

There's hardly any business nowadays that don't use computers and connect to the Internet. Companies maintain an online presence through their official websites, blogs, and social media pages. People use online services to conduct day to day activities like banking. And of course, there are many...

Echobot IoT Botnet Casts a Wide Net with Raft of Exploit Additions

A variant of the Mirai Internet of Things IoT botnet known as “Echobot” has added 13 more vulnerability exploits to its bag of infiltration tricks, according to researchers. These target a range of devices, including routers, firewalls, IP cameras, server management utilities, a programmable logi...