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CISPA cybersecurity bill backers hope second time’s a charm

2013-05-20/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

An interesting article from NBC News in there Technology section: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six months after a U.S. cybersecurity bill died in the Senate, some Obama administration officials and lawmakers are optimistic they can get a new law passed amid heightened public awareness of hacking attacks and cyber espionage. With top intelligence officials warning that cyber attacks have replaced […]

Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data

2013-05-20/0 Comments/in Vulnerability/by fdesir

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

CISPA cybersecurity bill backers hope second time’s a charm

2013-05-20/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data

2013-05-20/0 Comments/in Vulnerability/by fdesir

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CISPA cybersecurity bill backers hope second time’s a charm

2013-05-20/0 Comments/in General Security/by fdesir

An interesting article from NBC News in there Technology section:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six months after a U.S. cybersecurity bill died in the Senate, some Obama administration officials and lawmakers are optimistic they can get a new law passed amid heightened public awareness of hacking attacks and cyber espionage.

With top intelligence officials warning that cyber attacks have replaced terrorism as the leading threat against the United States, the White House and lawmakers have spent months discussing how to improve the flow of information between the government and the private sector.

A second go-around for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote on April 18, though the White House has again threatened to veto the bill unless more protections for privacy and civil liberties are added.

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Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data

2013-05-20/0 Comments/in Vulnerability/by fdesir

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

In March, the massive avalanche of data that crashed down on Spamhaus, the maintainer of a number of spam blacklists, made headlines as the largest distributed denial-of-service 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 distributed denial-of-service attack to nearly 50 Gbps during the first quarter of 2013, a sevenfold increase over the last 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 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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