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| Mar 13, 2019 | Misconfigured Box Account Probable Culprit In Confidential Data Leak Involving Apple, Other Tech Companies | Ted Ranosa, Tech Times 13 March 2019, 07:03 am
Security researchers have uncovered a potential data leak of confidential corporate files due to a poor configuration of cloud storage service Box.
Cybersecurity firm Adversis announced that it... |
| Sep 27, 2018 | Butterfly raises $250 million for portable full-body ultrasound scanner | In the decades following the deployment of the first clinical ultrasound machine in 1956, high-frequency scanners have become a go-to tool in many clinicians’ diagnostic arsenals — at least in the developed world. Unfortunately, despite the... |
| Aug 22, 2018 | Bulletproof IT strategies needed as cloud, IoT adoption climb | Enterprises now acknowledge that technology drives business today. Because of this, IT departments now face plenty of challenges as business processes transition to digital. New technologies such as cloud computing and the Internet of Thing... |
| Jul 5, 2018 | Steal This Show S04E01: Building Botnets For Fun & Profit | In this episode we meet Abhishta, one of the authors of the paper ‘The Business Model Of A Botnet’, from the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
This fascinating research was widely discussed on release, at least partly due to its insi... |
| Dec 15, 2017 | Unibank becomes Armenia’s first bank to comply with Swift security standards | Image source: Pixabay
Unibank, one of Armenia’s top banks, has become the country’s first to complete the certification process and become regarded as fully compliant with the required standards of security for the Swift payment infrastruct... |
| Dec 11, 2017 | EFF to court: LinkedIn is wrong about accessing publicly available information online | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 11, 2017 | EFF to court: LinkedIn is wrong about accessing publicly available information online | EFF is fighting another attempt by a giant corporation to take advantage of our poorly drafted federal computer crime statute for commercial advantage — without any regard for the impact on the rest of us. This time the culprit is LinkedIn.... |
| Nov 16, 2017 | Singapore Prefers Local When It Comes To Online Shopping – But Could Amazon’s Entry Change That? | The love of Singaporeans for shopping is no secret – but they are used to navigating vast malls and handpicking their favourite brands. E-commerce has really taken off in the last few years, as you can tell by the recent decision of global ... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Blockchain and Ethereum Hold the Promise in Cyber Security | |
| Sep 13, 2017 | Five Damaging Mistakes Businesses Make with Their Online Presence | Nowadays having an online presence is a given for most businesses. There are more than 3.58 billion internet users worldwide and this figure is only set to increase.
Having an online presence offers your business a whole range of opportunit... |
| Aug 28, 2017 | One of 1st-known Android DDoS malware infects phones in 100 countries | Enlarge
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Last year, a series of record-setting attacks hitting sites including KrebsOnSecurity and a Fre... |
| Jul 25, 2017 | Fake News Fighter Raises $23 Million to Battle Bots | Ready for a blow to the ego?
In 2016 bots, scripted software programs that perform automated tasks, surpassed human beings as the primary users of the Internet, according to research from Imperva, a cybersecurity firm based in Redwood Shore... |
| Jul 20, 2017 | How Bots Bested the $1 Billion Sneaker Resale Industry | People who track the shoe culture say the Internet and explosion of social networking has created... [+] new fervor in a hobby that began with the release of the first Nike Air Jordan shoes back in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine) |
| Jun 25, 2017 | How blockchain-based apps and sites resist DDoS attacks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction! The re... |
| Jun 25, 2017 | How blockchain-based apps and sites resist DDoS attacks | Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction! The recent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks on Final Fantasy XIV’s gaming platform are quite surreal, yet a timely signpost of where things are heading. Using traditional cyber security... |
| Jun 1, 2017 | Discontent and disruption in the world of content delivery networks | Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor
Mahendra Ramsinghani founded Secure Octane Investments, which includes Demisto, CyberGRX and 16 other infrastructure and cybersecurity companies. Mahendra authored "The Business of Venture Capital"... |
| May 13, 2017 | One for the history books: 2016's year in DDoS attacks | While 2016 certainly seemed to be one bad news item after the other, the year might not have been as dire as everyone thought. On the good news front, researchers made huge strides in precision treatments for cancer and prevention methods f... |
| Apr 7, 2017 | 3 Reasons Why IT Security Must Be a Top Concern for Tech Startups | April 7, 2017 6 min read
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Web and mobile apps are now a dime a dozen as more ventures join the rush to roll out the next killer app. According to AppBrain, there are nearly 2.8 m... |
| Jan 25, 2017 | Should geo-blocking be an option for DDoS prevention? | 2016 should have reinforced what security experts have been telling us over the years. Cyberattacks are not a matter of "if" anymore but "when."
Last year, there was no such thing as "too big to fail" as top te... |
| Jan 25, 2017 | Bot traffic takes back the web | Just over a year ago we reported that, for the first time in five years, human web traffic had overtaken bot traffic.
It seems, however, that human dominance was short lived. The latest Imperva Incapsula Bot Traffic Report shows that in 201... |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Bigger than Mirai: Leet Botnet delivers 650 Gbps DDoS attack with 'pulverized system files' | Earlier in the year, a huge DDoS attack was launched on Krebs on Security. Analysis showed that the attack pelted servers with 620 Gbps, and there were fears that the release of the Mirai source code used to launch the assault would lead to... |
| Oct 12, 2016 | What it takes to secure the elections | Ben Dickson Contributor
Ben Dickson is a software engineer and the founder of TechTalks.
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| Oct 1, 2016 | What you need to know about the imminent threat of IoT botnets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 1, 2016 | What you need to know about the imminent threat of IoT botnets | What do security analyst Brian Krebs, French hosting giant OVH and famous gaming company Blizzard have in common? They’ve all been the recent victims of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, assaults that involve disabling o... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Traffic Is Fake, Audience Numbers Are Garbage, And Nobody Knows How Many People See Anything | How many living, breathing human beings really read Techdirt? The truth — the most basic, rarely-spoken truth — is that we have no earthly idea. With very few exceptions, no media property big or small, new or old, online or off, can truly ... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | How to prevent your IoT devices from being forced into botnet bondage | Ben Dickson Contributor
Ben Dickson is a software engineer and the founder of TechTalks.
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| Jul 7, 2016 | 90 percent of security events are caused by bots | Bots account for 49 percent of all internet traffic, most of which is from malicious 'bad bots' according to website security company Incapsula.
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Of course there are good bots too, such as the crawlers used by major search engi... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | 3 Ways to Avoid Attacks to Your Website | The Internet is an amazing way to discover new things and communicate with others, but it is also quite an unsafe place, where attacks happen all the time. Website hacks can compromise the work of businesses and companies, especially by tak... |
| May 27, 2016 | 6 Behind-the-Scenes Technologies Powering Your Digital Life | Technology has become an integral part of our daily lives – so much, that often we tend to forget the inner workings of these technological marvels, like the background technologies that work round-the-clock in order to help us enjoy our di... |
| Feb 25, 2016 | GRE tunneling: Keeping human traffic unaffected during DDoS attacks | Picture a standard subway ride during rush hour. The car, of course, is crammed full. Some of those subway riders are pleasant commuters, and some are subway villains like pickpockets and purse-snatchers. Now imagine someone has invented a ... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | New Akamai Tool Aims To Bring Bots Under Control | Akamai released a new Bot Manager tool today designed to give companies finely tuned control over Bot traffic on their websites.
The numbers vary, but research has shown that about half of traffic on the web comes from bots. Bots are small ... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | DDoS attacks and how they work | DDoS attacks are one of the greatest threats that companies face and can lead to financial losses and damage to customer relationships.
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But how exactly do these attacks work? Cloud delivery security company Incapsula has put t... |
| Dec 19, 2015 | Israel’s Flourishing Fintech Has Many Fathers | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
Dennis Mitzner is a journalist and writer with a focus on tech, culture and politics. You can find his commentary here. He also writes about e-commerce and retail for Forbes.
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| Dec 10, 2015 | Humans reclaim the web from the bots | For the first time in five years, humans were the ones responsible for the majority (51.5 percent) of all online traffic, up from just 38.5 percent in 2013.
This is according to the latest Imperva Incapsula Bot Traffic Report which shows th... |
| Oct 24, 2015 | Hackers Are Using CCTV Cameras to Create Botnet Swarms | Network security firm Incapsula has a new report that sounds … just a little scary. It reports a 240 percent uptick in botnet activity, when a bunch of connected devices are compromised and used for attacks that overtax servers and shut dow... |
| Oct 13, 2015 | Apigee’s New Security Service Protects APIs From Bots | Apigee, a service that specializes in managing APIs for developers and enterprises, launched a new security product today that aims to protect APIs from malicious bots. The new Apigee Sense service uses predictive analytics to identify mali... |
| Sep 17, 2015 | Wanted: DDoS skills to fend off attacks | DDoS attacks regularly make the news, but what are companies doing to help them fend off and guard against the threat?
Security company Incapsula has conducted some research to find out if companies are actively seeking candidates with DDoS... |
| Aug 5, 2015 | Your Router is One of the Latest DDoS Attack Weapons | If you woke up one morning to find your car had been stolen, that would be bad. If you found out your stolen car had been used to drive through the front windows of three businesses, that would be worse. And if it just so happened that you ... |
| Jun 9, 2015 | Botnets for hire mean anyone can launch a DDoS attack | The latest DDoS Threat Landscape Report from security specialist Incapsula reveals that whilst 71 percent of network layer attacks last under three hours, 20.4 percent last for more than five days.
At an estimated cost of $40,000 per hour a... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | 4 Essentials to Secure Your Business Even From State-Sponsored Online Threats | June 3, 2015 7 min read
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Recent online security breaches and attacks have left the business and technology communities in a turbulent state regarding the strength of their securi... |
| May 12, 2015 | Researchers uncover “self-sustaining” botnets of poorly secured routers | reader comments 59 with 57 posters participating
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Large numbers of home and small-office routers are under the control of hackers who are using them to overwhelm websites wi... |
| May 12, 2015 | Anonymous may have hijacked thousands of routers for zombie botnet | New evidence suggests that Anonymous has begun using malware-infected home routers to launch DDoS attacks against various targets, particularly in the last few months. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the security firm Incapsula, ... |
| May 12, 2015 | Home and small office routers are being hijacked for DDoS attacks | The router security message really should have been driven home years ago, but it seems that a lack of basic security practices by ISPs, vendors and users has resulted in large numbers of hacker-controlled routers being used to launch DDoS ... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | DevOps salaries rise as the skill set becomes more recognized | A new study by website security specialist Incapsula and community site DevOps.com shows that DevOps is rapidly becoming one of the hottest technology career paths.
DevOps -- a hybrid of development and operations -- is a recent field, reco... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Imperva brings network layer DDoS protection to smaller enterprises | Enterprise data can be put at risk from DDoS attacks, but whilst larger businesses have the resources to guard against these attacks smaller ones sometimes struggle.
Security company Imperva is committed to protecting data for all sizes of ... |
| Mar 31, 2015 | Anonymous proxies used to carry out shotgun DDoS attacks | We're all increasingly concerned about our privacy and the footprint that we leave on the internet. It's not surprising then that more of us are turning to anonymous proxies to hide our origin IP and HTTP details.
But new research from webs... |
| Mar 14, 2015 | Website Hackers Slip Under The Radar With Impersonator Bots | Ofer Gayer Contributor
Editor’s note: Ofer Gayer is a security researcher at Incapsula.
It was late December when we were contacted by a financial service provider who began noticing a spike in online registration requests. Rather than resu... |
| Feb 14, 2015 | The Anonymity Network At Risk | Debbie Fletcher Contributor
Editor’s note: Debbie Fletcher is a writer who has written for a range of different magazines and news publications..
You don’t have to watch NCIS to know that almost everything we do leaves some kind of trail or... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | 12 Tips to Protect Your Company Website From Hackers | January 20, 2015 7 min read
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Making your website live is like unlocking the door to your premises with your office and safe open: Most of the people who visit your physical build... |
| Dec 23, 2014 | North Korea's internet disrupted -- is this the start of a cyber war? | North Korea experienced a complete internet outage for several hours last night before links were restored early this morning.
With the North Koreans at the center of the political storm over the Sony hack could this be some form of revenge... |
| Dec 22, 2014 | North Korea loses its Internet, possibly in retaliation for a hack it may not have done | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update 10pm: North Korea’s Internet was restored ... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Who's afraid of the big bad bot? | Web security specialist Incapsula has released its 2014 annual Bot Study which reveals that 56 percent of website traffic is accounted for by bots.
That's down from 61.5 percent on last year's study, however the number of 'bad' bots posing ... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | The true cost of DDoS attacks on business | DDoS attacks can be extremely disruptive to business but it can be hard to quantify that disruption in financial and business terms.
A new report by security company Incapsula collates responses from 270 North American organizations of vary... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | Incapsula launches how-to guide for dealing with DDoS attacks | We reported back in March that DDoS attacks had risen sharply to become a major threat for online businesses.
In order to help companies cope, cloud security provider Incapsula is today launching a DDoS Playbook analyzing the threat landsca... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | Shellshock -- we ain't seen nothing yet | It's now just over a week since news of the Shellshock bug broke and analysts are still trying to work out just how much of an impact it could have.
Security specialist Incapsula has been tracking the vulnerability to get an idea of its mag... |
| Aug 20, 2014 | Business feud DDoS attack lasts for 38 days | Back in May we reported on Incapsula's packet filtering solution for combating DDoS attacks. Today the company reveals details of how its ‘Behemoth’ system has mitigated a massive multi-vector DDoS attack.
The attack lasted 38 days, during ... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | Fake Googlebots used to drive DDoS and other attacks | Googlebots are essential to the smooth running of the search engine, ceaselessly probing websites to ensure that Google stays up to date with the latest developments and site changes.
But for every 25 genuine Googlebots that visit your site... |
| Jun 11, 2014 | Feedly, Evernote And Others Become Latest Victims Of DDoS Attacks | Who have the DDoS attackers not hit? That’s the question. This morning, RSS reader and feed-syncing platform Feedly is being hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack, where again the criminals are attempting to extort money in return f... |
| May 28, 2014 | Incapsula launches added protection against DDoS attacks | One of the greatest threats faced by online businesses is the DDoS attack. Recent research by application delivery service Incapsula shows that DDoS attacks are up 240 percent and DNS attacks are also on the rise.
In response to this the co... |
| Apr 20, 2014 | DDoS attacks in 2014: Smarter, bigger, faster, stronger | Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are evolving at a rapid pace with no appearance of slowing down.
Incapsula’s research team has been tracking trends in the DDoS landscape and has seen a rapid surge in attacks this year.
Fundamen... |
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| Apr 7, 2014 | How a website flaw turned 22,000 visitors into a botnet of DDoS zombies | Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock reader comments 38 with 31 posters participating, including story author
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| Mar 27, 2014 | DDoS traffic soars and the bots get cleverer | New research by website security specialist Incapsula looks at the impact of DDoS traffic on the internet with data collected over a five month period looking at over 154 million DDoS bot sessions.
It reveals some startling statistics, the ... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Incapsula launches load balancing in the cloud | Delivering services from the cloud has changed the face of business computing in recent years. But load balancing hasn’t really evolved beyond locally deployed systems.
Until now that is. Cloud-based website security and performance special... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | Mobile Bot Traffic Reportedly Grew 30% In 2013 | It’s no secret that mobile — and specifically Android — is becoming a major vector for malware. The result of this, according to a new report from CAPTCHA-based advertising firm Solve Media, is that suspicious traffic from mobile devices gr... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Old-guard security co. Imperva buys Skyfence for $60M & 2 other companies to get into the cloud game | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Publicly traded data security company Imperva has... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Bots Now Reportedly Account For 61.5% Of Website Visitors | In 2012, just over half of all Internet traffic came from bots and, according to the latest data from security CDN service Incapsula, this year the number has increased to 61.5 percent.
At first glance, this sounds like this means the numbe... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Bots are now the dominant species on the Internet, study says | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords … parti... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Bots are now the dominant species on the Internet, study says | I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords … particularly since they are still allowing us humans to use the Internet.
According to a new report from security content delivery network Incapsula, 61.5 percent of all website traffic is now non... |
| Jan 8, 2013 | Secret footsoldier targeting banks reveals meaner, leaner face of DDoS | Screenshots showing the denial-of-service PHP script before and after it has been decoded.
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| Nov 14, 2012 | Are you scared yet? Why cloud security keeps these 7 execs up at night | Once upon a time, you knew who to fire when a hack took down your servers: The “little weenies” running around in the basement of your company, as AlienVault’s Russell Spitler put it.
But that’s all changing.
Cloud technology is ubiquitous.... |
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| Mar 30, 2012 | Боты против пользователей: 51% vs. 49% | Anonymous 30 марта 2012, 14:49 Боты против пользователей: 51% vs. 49%
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| Mar 18, 2012 | Human visitors a minority on many websites: Report | New research suggests that human visitors may form a minority of the traffic on the internet, with automated search engine bots, malware and other non-human traffic making up the majority.
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| Aug 3, 2011 | 6Scan Announces Website Penetration Testing as a Cloud Service | It’s still security week, and we’ve got more security related news for you: a brand new company called 6Scan officially announced its security-as-a-service offering today. The company was founded by CEO Nitzan Miron and CTO Yaron Tal, two f... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | Incapsula Wants to Bring Enterprise Website Security to SMBs. Free Access Codes for RWW Readers | Security company Imperva‘s SMB spin-off company Incapsula opens its service to the public today. Incapsula provides a content delivery network (CDN) style service, aimed at speeding up websites, and a hosted Web application firewall (WAF). ... |