March 05, 2018
Did You Order All These Large Packets?
This week GitHub became the victim of the largest DDOS attack ever recorded due to a new amplification attack being observed in the wild. This attack, which did not require building a botnet or compromising any servers, was able to generate 1.35TBps of data against the target. It leveraged UDP responses from memcached servers exposed to the […]
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January 04, 2018
Moore’s Law Crippled by Security Flaw
Most of us working in Information Technology are aware of the Moore’s Law observation. A gross over-simplification would be to say the transistor density on an integrated circuit doubles about every two years (some quote 18 months), and as a result, performance increases by double in that same time-frame. Ironically, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of […]
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November 02, 2017
Threat Deception: Attacking the Illusion
“Guardian, this is Rapier….three klicks southeast of target…Rapier is Oscar Mike. Radio silent. Over.” “Copy Rapier. This is Guardian. Out.” “Guardian, this is Rapier. Code worked. Rapier in the perimeter headed to target…..FRV in five. Over” “Roger. Out….” “Guardian, this is Rapier. What’s goin’ on? We’re in the building ……negative contact….I repeat, negative contact. Nothing. […]
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