GitHub survives record-breaking DDoS attack that hitchhiked memcached servers

GitHub recently survived the largest-ever recorded distributed denial of service attack in history,  experiencing roughly 10 minutes of disruption during the onslaught, which was amplified using exposed memcached servers — a vector that has seen a significant increase in abuse since last month. A Mar. 1 blog post by the GitHub Engineering team reported that …

Nigeria lost about N127 billion to cybercrime in 2017

Dr Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, on Monday 6 November 2017 revealed that Nigeria has lost about N127 billion to cybercrime. He made the revelation at Nigeria’s first Legislative Stakeholders Conference on ICT and Cyber security in Abuja. Saraki, who was represented by Philip Aduda Saraki, Senate Minority Whip did not, however, highlight the …

Hackers reusing and improving existing malware

Software developers usually reuse code wherever possible, and hackers are no exception. While we often think of different malware strains as separate entities, the reality is that most new malware recycles large chunks of source code from existing malware with some changes and additions (possibly taken from other publically released vulnerabilities and tools). Examples of …

Report Urges Security providers to consider offering DDoS protection as a service

A new report by Corero Network Security suggests that offering DDoS protection as a service is a viable business idea. Out of its respondents, 82 percent see a “clear business opportunity” in providing DDoS protection as a service to its customers. Also, 93 percent see providing DDoS mitigation in relation to other types of security …

New IoT Botnet DDoSes Russian Bank

A brand new botnet has emerged and was spotted on April 16th, yet details have only been made public earlier today. It appears the person behind this new threat scanned for vulnerable IOT devices on port 81. When this unusual amount of port 81 traffic was first discovered, security researchers were a bit unsure as …

DNSSEC Deployment 2016 Records Growth

A new report published State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016 there has been steady and strong growth in both the statistics around DNSSEC signing and validation — and also in the number of tools and libraries available to support DNSSEC. That growth, however, is not evenly distributed. While many separate sites provide DNSSEC statistics, this report that …