Neustar is about to release a new report on the DDoS threat landscape. What are some of the key trends to watch? Neustar's Jim Fink offers a preview of the study's findings.
The FFIEC just issued new guidelines on DDoS risks to U.S. banking institutions. What is the substance of these guidelines, and how must banks and credit unions respond? Rodney Joffe of Neustar offers advice.
The FFIEC has issued notices spelling out its expectations for the steps that financial institutions should take to mitigate risks posed by ATM cash-out schemes and the continued DDoS attacks on public-facing websites.
Distributed-denial-of-service attacks are a concern for all organizations. But financial institutions face unique challenges, and so they require a unique level of protection, says Mark Byers of Fortinet.
In addition to brute force/scale based attacks, attackers often probe for, and then take advantage of, application vulnerabilities to steal data or pursue financial gain. This means that, in addition to a Web security solution's scale and performance, organizations should consider how architecture and adaptability...
DDoS attacks have undergone significant evolution. On the one hand, they have grown larger. But attackers are also harnessing more sophisticated technologies, such as headless browsers, that enable relatively small, short attacks to go undetected and wreak havoc on a bank's website. Another trend is the blending of...
NATO has confirmed that two if its websites were hit by a distributed-denial-of-service attack on March 15 that caused intermittent site downtime. Ukrainian hacktivists are claiming responsibility for the incident.
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Social networking site Meetup has been facing ongoing DDoS attacks. It received a notification the attacks would continue unless it paid a fee, which highlights the rising concern of extortion tied to DDoS.
Fraudsters continually find new ways to attack, but too many organizations rely on old, unsuccessful methods to detect and prevent fraud. This is the premise, says David Mattos, VP Sales, with Easy Solutions.
Neustar is about to release a new report on the DDoS threat landscape. What are some of the key trends to watch? Neustar's Jim Fink offers a preview of the study's findings.
Malcolm Palmore of the FBI's Cyber Division discusses how law enforcement agents are working closely with private sector security leaders to investigate DDoS attacks and help mitigate the effects.
While January's seemingly isolated distributed-denial-of-service attacks against JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America may have been a blip, DDoS expert Barrett Lyon says stronger attacks are on the way.
While massive DDoS attacks were dominant in 2013, this year, smaller application-layer attacks going after such things as log-in pages and password files are far more common, says Rich Bolstridge, chief strategist, financial services, at Akamai Technologies.
Website security firm CloudFlare is warning organizations worldwide to be on the lookout for an increase in larger DDoS attacks. But these NTP attacks are far less sophisticated than the earlier DDoS attacks that targeted U.S. banks.
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