DNS abuse: Advice for incident responders
What DNS abuse techniques are employed by cyber adversaries and which organizations can help incident responders and security teams detect, mitigate and prevent them? The DNS …
How to get cloud migration right
If you want to get cloud migration right, you must deal with an inconvenient truth: Cloud or hybrid cloud environments lower the drawbridge between your data center and the …
Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day in the Windows CLFS Driver (CVE-2022-37969)
September 2022 Patch Tuesday is here, with fixes for 64 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities in various Microsoft products, including one zero-day (CVE-2022-37969) exploited by …
Malicious DNS traffic targets corporate and personal devices
Akamai’s security research team examined potentially compromised devices, discovering that 12.3% communicated with domains associated with malware or ransomware during Q2 …
The impact of DNS attacks on global organizations
Often we see stories about cyber attacks that breached an organisations’ security parameters, and advice on how we can protect against future threats. However, what is often …
Top three most critical areas of web security
Akamai Technologies revealed three research reports at the RSA Conference 2022, focusing on three of the most critical areas of web security: ransomware, web applications and …
The costs and damages of DNS attacks
EfficientIP has announced the findings of its eighth annual 2022 Global DNS Threat Report, conducted by IDC, which reveals the damaging impact Domain Name System (DNS) attacks …
DDoS attacks becoming larger and more complex, finance most targeted sector
Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks decreased slightly in 2021 but are becoming larger and more complex in nature, an analysis from F5 has found. Data showed a 3% …
Subdomain takeover attacks on the rise and harder to monitor
A research from Detectify found that subdomain takeovers are on the rise but are also getting harder to monitor as domains now seem to have more vulnerabilities in them. In …
Carpet bombing DDoS attacks spiralled in 2021
Neustar Security Services has released a report which details the ongoing rise in cyberattacks in 2021, with an unprecedented number of carpet bombing distributed denial of …
Key drivers for the shift to public DNS resolvers
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) analyses the security pros and cons of using public DNS resolvers. A core part of the internet is the Domain Name System …
Network and security teams must collaborate to successfully deliver digital transformation
Collaboration is a key component of any successful business strategy, but it’s not always a simple task. The conflicting goals of individual teams means that different …