Tag Archives: DDOS

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 174

https://threatpost.com/serious-dirty-cow-linux-vulnerability-under-attack/121448/

http://news.softpedia.com/news/hackers-steal-research-and-user-data-from-japanese-nuclear-research-lab-509380.shtml

https://www.databreaches.net/rainbow-childrens-clinic-notifies-33368-patients-of-ransomware-attack/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 169

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3110975/techology-business/how-do-you-measure-success-when-it-comes-to-stopping-phishing-attacks.html

http://www.databreachtoday.com/equation-group-hacking-tool-dump-5-lessons-a-9358

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3109982/security/attackers-dont-need-vulnerabilities-when-the-basics-work-just-as-well.html

http://www.securityweek.com/attacker-uses-virtual-machine-hide-malicious-activity

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3110653/security/imperva-application-layer-ddos-attacks-are-on-the-rise.html

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/actively-exploited-ios-flaws-that-hijack-iphones-likely-spread-for-years/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 138

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/crypto-e-mail-service-pays-6000-ransom-gets-taken-out-by-ddos-anyway/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/booming-crypto-ransomware-industry-employs-new-tricks-to-befuddle-victims/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/02/pagefair_malware_snare_scare_in_halloween_hack_of_adblocker_blocker/

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/it-personnel-are-the-riskiest/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 111

High Tech Crime Investigation Association Conference: http://www.htciaconference.org

http://www.databreachtoday.com/pci-issues-penetration-test-guidance-a-8056

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/github-battles-largest-ddos-in-sites-history-targeted-at-anti-censorship-tools/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 72

New Logo!; Dominos has 600k records stolen and held for ransome; Undisclosed number of customer records are stolen from ATT by employees of a vendor; PF Changs confirms credit card breach; Stratfor forensic report leaks; Feedly hit by DDOS attack, doesn’t pay ransom and gets it again; Inland Empire Colleges emails 35000 records to the wrong address; Class action suit filed against payroll company following data breach; 9 rules to follow after you’ve suffered a data breach; You should be managing incidents, not responding to them.

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http://consumerist.com/2014/06/16/dominos-hit-by-hackers-demanding-ransom-money-for-european-customers-data
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/15/att-data-breach/10555039/
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/p-f-changs-confirms-credit-card-breach/#more-26467
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/stratfor-verizon-report-security-flaws/
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/11/feedly-evernote-and-others-become-latest-victims-of-ddos-attacks/
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Inland-Empire-Colleges-Report-Possible-Mass-Data-Breach-263370251.html
http://www.scmagazine.com/class-action-filed-against-payroll-company-paytime-over-massive-data-breach/article/356013/
http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/9-rules-follow-after-youve-suffered-data-breach-244273
http://integriography.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/if-you-are-doing-incident-response-you-are-doing-it-wrong/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 57

Security recommendations from Bob; Meetup.com rides out a DDOS attack rather than pay a ransom; How to test the security savvy of your employees; Why companies need to think about this insider threat; 6 lessons learned from advanced attacks; How IT can establish better cloud control; Council on Cyber Security releases version 5 of critical security controls.

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http://meetupblog.meetup.com/post/78413031007/no-doubt-this-has-been-a-tough-weekend-for
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2014/022414-how-to-test-the-security-279049.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/022014-why-companies-need-to-check-278927.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/022414-6-lessons-learned-about-the-279082.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/022414-how-it-can-establish-better-279048.html
http://www.counciloncybersecurity.org/attachments/article/12/CSC-MASTER-VER50-2-27-2014.pdf

 

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 40

Federal employees circumventing onerous security controls resulting in breaches;  Cryptolocker is scary stuff; PHP.net hacked, and the response; DDOS attacks getting much larger, but lasting less time; Our discussion on advanced malware.

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/101713-federal-security-breaches-traced-to-274944.html
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208214109/Cryptolocker_Wants_Your_Money
http://bartblaze.blogspot.com/2013/10/phpnet-compromised.html
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/hackers-compromise-official-php-website-infect-visitors-with-malware/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2056188/brace-for-stronger-ddos-attacks-security-firm-warns.html

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 34

On preventing Snowden-style data leaks in your organization; should companies really worry about NSA spying?; On the usefulness of Red Team exercises; and how to defend against DDOS attacks.

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http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/26/20197183-how-snowden-did-it?lite

http://akamai.infoworld.com/t/data-security/how-secure-your-company-against-nsa-inspired-hacking-226264

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/getting-the-most-out-of-a-security-red-t/240160471

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 13

The Internet destroying ddos attack that wasn’t

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/missouri-court-rules-against-440000-cyberheist-victim/

http://hothardware.com/News/Huge-Spike-In-Mobile-Data-Traffic-Drives-IEEE-400-Gigabit-Ethernet-Standard/

http://adamcaudill.com/2013/04/04/security-done-wrong-leaky-ftp-server/

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/04/05/ransomware-child-buse/

http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/three-lessons-from-the-south-korea-mbr-wiper-attacks/

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 9

Episode 9 – From Las Vegas
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DDOS attack on Bank of the West masked a $900,000 theft from the account of Ascent Builders. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/02/ddos-attack-on-bank-hid-900000-cyberheist/

Bible.org- https://isc.sans.edu/diary/When+web+sites+go+bad%3A+bible+.+org+compromise/15250
Site compromised – serving malware, had rudimentary defense against automated analysis

Bit9 update: https://blog.bit9.com/2013/02/25/bit9-security-incident-update/
– kudos to bit9 for transparency and disclosure – hopefully works in their favor

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