In-brief: A network of 900 Closed Circuit Cameras were involved in a denial of service attack against a cloud-based service said the firm Imperva*.
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Better Web Application Security in 14 Steps
In-brief:In-brief: In this, the last in a three-part series on REST API, Neeraj Khandelwal of Barracuda Networks examines how web application security design can help secure REST APIs and provides tips for securing web applications. You can read Neeraj’s previous posts (here and here).
The Cost of Phishing? More than you think!
In-brief: A report from the Ponemon Institute puts the annual cost of phishing attacks at $300,000, much of it due to lost productivity. Can that number be believed? It’s hard to know.
Akamai Identifies Old Protocol in New DrDoS Attacks
An old protocol found in SOHO routers may be responsible for recent DrDoS attacks, says the security steam at Akamai. Akamai, through the company’s Prolexic Security Engineering & Research Team (PLXsert), issued an alert today for an old protocol that could be used in Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attacks (DrDoS) attacks. Routing Information Protocol v1 (RPIv1) allows routers in small networks to share route information. For example a router running RIPv1 would send a request over UDP 520 when it is first powered on and other devices on the network, listening for this request, would send the new router a list of routes. In this case the list of routes would be sent instead to a designated target. It has since been replaced with RIPv2 but many older units still have RIPv1 enabled by default. “This version of the RIP protocol was first introduced in 1988 – more than […]
Mobilizing SQL Injection Attacks: Same Pig, New Lipstick?
In-brief: New research from Akamai suggests that attackers are using new methods to carry out and cover up for malicious attacks, among them: harnessing harmless mobile carrier networks to carry out attacks such as SQL injection.
