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Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data

2013-05-21/0 Comments/in Hack/by fdesir

An interesting article from Dark Reading in there Security Monitoring section : The massive avalanche of data in March that crashed down on Spamhaus, the maintainer of a number of spam blacklists, made headlines as the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack witnessed to date. Along with the ongoing campaign against financial institutions by a group of attackers calling […]

Apple iPhone Decryption Backlog Stymies Police

2013-05-21/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from InfromationWeek in there Security section: pple is overwhelmed by requests from law enforcement agencies to decrypt seized iPhones, and its waiting list is so long that it may take months before new requests get handled. That revelation, first reported by CNET, was gleaned from a search warrant affidavit for a seized iPhone last summer by a […]

Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data

2013-05-21/0 Comments/in Hack/by fdesir

Apple iPhone Decryption Backlog Stymies Police

2013-05-21/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

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Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data

2013-05-21/0 Comments/in Hack/by fdesir

An interesting article from Dark Reading in there Security Monitoring section :

The massive avalanche of data in March that crashed down on Spamhaus, the maintainer of a number of spam blacklists, made headlines as the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack witnessed to date.

Along with the ongoing campaign against financial institutions by a group of attackers calling themselves the Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-din Al Qassam, the attacks drove the bandwidth of the average DDoS to nearly 50 Gbps during the first quarter of 2013, a sevenfold increase over the past three months of 2012, according to a quarterly report by DDoS mitigation firm Prolexic.

Yet those large attacks are not the most significant denial-of-service (DoS) threat for most companies, according to DDoS mitigation experts.

“The big gigabit, the big DNS reflection attacks — those get all the press, but the ones that are devastating are the ones that knock the application down,” says Vann Abernethy, senior product manager for NSFOCUS, a Beijing-based DDoS-mitigation and network-security firm.

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Apple iPhone Decryption Backlog Stymies Police

2013-05-21/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

That revelation, first reported by CNET, was gleaned from a search warrant affidavit for a seized iPhone last summer by a federal agent who was investigating a Kentucky man on crack cocaine distribution charges.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent, Rob Maynard, said in court documents that he’d “attempted to locate a local, state or federal law enforcement agency with the forensic capabilities to unlock” an iPhone 4S seized during the investigation, but every contacted law enforcement agency said that it “did not have the forensic capability.” Apple, meanwhile, told him that the wait time for recovering data from an iPhone — which the technology firm copied to a USB key then provided to investigators — was approximately seven weeks, though Maynard ultimately had to wait about four months.

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