5 reasons why depending on your ISP for DDoS protection is a bad idea

A distributed denial of service DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Once thought of as prankish annoyance, DDoS attacks today are often a tool for cybercriminals to...

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Written by: Michael Hansen This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic both good and bad that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season. The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven't already started thinking about the...

G2A's Journey to Global Growth, Part 1: Keeping Gamers and Geeks Playing During a Pandemic

G2A.COM is the world's largest marketplace for video games, with thousands of sellers, 24 million customers, and a million transactions a month. It's the first stop for gamers and geeks who are looking for low-priced game keys, activation codes, electronics, merchandise, and more. G2A has grown...

Is Remote Desktop Protocol Secure? It Can Be

Kroll’s Paul Drapeau, Jeff Macko and Isaiah Jensen also contributed to this report. Most of the problems with setting up Remote Desktop Protocol RDP for remote work involves making RDP accessible via the public internet. RDP itself is not a secure setup and therefore requires additional security...

Game Over: How to Stop DDoS Attacks on Online Gamers

You’re just about to take out a long-time rival, claim Victory Royale or round out a royal flush when your ping spikes or you’re DCed. Chances are you, or the game you’re playing, have been hit by a denial of service DoS attack. What’s the story? A recent report cited that of all cyber attacks...

activeTransactionBlocks are vulnerable to DDoS attacks

Handle pauliax Vulnerability details Impact There is a potential issue in function removeUserActiveBlocks and the for loop inside it. I assume you are aware of block gas limits they may be less relevant on other chains but still needs to be accounted for, so as there is no limit for...

Game over: Apex Legends players locked out by protest message

Messages placed directly in or around games is a common hack technique. It can be used for trolling, phishing, scams, or anything else the message-placer can think of. Messages can also be placed in games for the purposes of advertising but thats a tale for a different day. Recently, players of...

New Mirai-Inspired Botnet Could Be Using Your KGUARD DVRs in Cyber Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday revealed details about a new Mirai-inspired botnet called "miraiptea" that leverages an undisclosed vulnerability in digital video recorders DVR provided by KGUARD to propagate and carry out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. Chinese security firm...

Pandemic-Bored Attackers Pummeled Gaming Industry

Attacks on the gaming industry skyrocketed during the year of the pandemic, with attacks on web applications shooting up 340 percent in 2020. According to Akamai Technologies’ latest State of the Internet and Security report, Gaming in a Pandemic PDF, cyberattack traffic targeting the video game...

Avaddon Ransomware Gang Evaporates Amid Global Crackdowns

Ransomware group Avaddon has decided to shutter its criminal enterprise after landing in the crosshairs of law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Australia. Avaddon, a prolific ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider, released its decryption keys to BleepingComputer — 2,934 in total — with each k...

‘Fancy Lazarus’ Cyberattackers Ramp up Ransom DDoSes

A distributed denial-of-service DDoS extortion group has blazed back on the cybercrime scene, this time under the name of “Fancy Lazarus.” It’s been launching a series of new attacks that may or may not have any teeth, researchers said. The new name is a tongue-in-cheek combination of the...

What Is The High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC)❓ Defend methods

High Orbit Ion Cannon HOIC is a platform that offers open-source network stress testing features. Used by people with the intend of attacking a server. With the application, you’ll be able to carry out denial of service DoS and distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. The primary purpose of...

Keksec Cybergang Debuts Simps Botnet for Gaming DDoS

A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the cyber-underground to carry out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on gaming targets and others, using internet of things IoT nodes. It’s part of the toolset used by the Keksec cybercrime group, researchers said. According to t...

Why Web Application Security Is Important

By Owais Sultan Internet security is complex but its importance is undeniable, especially when ransomware, DDoS attacks, and online identity theft are common. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why Web Application Security Is Important...

Avaddon ransomware gang: ‘We stole 3TB of French AXA Group data’

By Waqas Avaddon ransomware gang is threatning to carry out DDoS attacks and data leak if AXA did not coporate with the attackers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Avaddon ransomware gang: We stole 3TB of French AXA Group data...

Authorization service vulnerable to DDos attacks in Apache CFX

CXF supports via JwtRequestCodeFilter passing OAuth 2 parameters via a JWT token as opposed to query parameters see: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT Secured Authorization Request JAR. Instead of sending a JWT token as a "request" parameter, the spec also supports specifying a URI from...

GHSA-7Q4H-PJ78-J7VG Authorization service vulnerable to DDos attacks in Apache CFX

CXF supports via JwtRequestCodeFilter passing OAuth 2 parameters via a JWT token as opposed to query parameters see: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT Secured Authorization Request JAR. Instead of sending a JWT token as a "request" parameter, the spec also supports specifying a URI from...

Major EU country hit by crippling DDoS attacks

By Waqas Over 200 Belgian Websites Become Target of DDoS Attacks. Here's what happened and which institution was hit by the DDoS attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major EU country hit by crippling DDoS attacks...

5 Fundamental But Effective IoT Device Security Controls

As the pandemic continues to fuel the shift to remote work, numerous manufacturers have capitalized on this movement to create a multitude of handy internet of things IoT devices. While these devices may make our home and work lives more convenient, they greatly expand the attack surface for...

Apache CXF Resource Management Error Vulnerability

Apache CXF is the United States Apache Apache Foundation of an open source Web services framework. The framework supports a variety of Web services standards , a variety of front-end programming APIs. Apache CXF has a security vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers DDos attacks...