Neustar, Inc., has announced that its Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168 percent increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180 percent increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018.
Positive Technologies has published its ‘security assessment of Diameter networks’ report. The Diameter signalling protocol is used to authenticate and authorise messages and information distribution in 4G networks.
CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has issued an alert to encourage organizations to adopt a heightened state of cyber security when implementing teleworking in response to COVID-19.
The UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has released the results of the annual survey of cyber security breaches across UK organizations. The Government surveyed UK businesses and charities to find out they approach cyber security and help Government learn more about the cyber security issues faced by industry.
As people around the world transition from an office environment to home working, maintaining cyber security is imperative. For organizations establishing telework security policies, remote access solutions, etc., NIST has developed a comprehensive telework resource guide
Many organizations allow the use of password managers to help users cope with the multitude of frequently changing passwords that they need to use, however some commercial password managers may be vulnerable to cyber attack by fake apps, new academic research suggests.
Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Keith Lunden, Nthan Brubake, and Jeremy Kennelly provide an update on ransomware which targets industrial production and critical infrastructure organizations.
Network misconfigurations not only can cause downtime they can be serious security threats. Avivi Siman-Tov discusses the misconfiguration errors that plague businesses and what strategies they can use to prevent them.
Link11 is warning organizations of an increase in length of DDoS attacks over the past three weeks, which risk disrupting business processes for organizations as they implement large-scale remote working plans for employees following the Coronavirus outbreak.
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