April 11, 2018

Just 1 Percent of Companies Feel Ready to Fend Off Media Security Threats, Survey Reveals

2 min read - According to a recent study, just 1 percent of U.S. media companies reported high levels of confidence in their ability to withstand a variety of media security attacks.

September 15, 2016

Misconfigured NTP Servers Serve as a DDoS Resource

2 min read - A quarterly report from Akamai found that attackers are increasingly leveraging misconfigured NTP servers to launch DDoS attacks.

June 21, 2016

Akamai Says Subtlety Is Out, Brute Force Is In for Identity Theft

2 min read - New security research from Akamai found that brute-force attacks are making a comeback thanks to their low-risk, high-reward nature.

September 29, 2015

XOR DDoS Attack Tool Being Used to Launch Over 20 Daily Attacks

3 min read - Threat actors are using a previously discovered DDoS attack tool to launch over 20 daily attacks against legitimate organizations, new research showed.

CISO December 23, 2014

Failure to Plan Is a Plan for Failure When It Comes to Security

3 min read - With major security events happening in 2014, including Heartbleed and Sony's hack, what can companies do to plan ahead and protect themselves from hacks.

October 3, 2014

Spiked! New DDoS Toolkit Drives Home Network Vulnerabilities

2 min read - Corporate networks should keep their eye on Spike, a new type of distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that goes beyond desktops to attack routers.

CISO February 26, 2014

What Is the Best Way to Respond to a DDoS Attack?

4 min read - As data breaches continue to occur, cyber attackers have demonstrated enhanced technical sophistication in the area of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS accounted for more than 55{30bfbf8d9f2833f0337133e196b4dc87825dfb7d33a3602d05ee876ecd6f1178} of the overall annual cybercrime costs per organizations.