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WaterHole attack

Watering hole attacks: how APT and cyber criminals infiltrate secure infrastructures

My first encounter with the world of cyber-criminals occurred through a watering hole attack campaign many years ago. I visited a Persian website and discovered that it was downloading malware onto visitorsbrowsers. I promptly contacted the site administrator, who informed me that they had no technical knowledge of the issue. It became apparent that
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credential stuffing

Credential stuffing is no DDoS!

I have heard this many times over the course of the last several years: someone is experiencing a heavy DDoS attack on their website. When I ask them what type of attack they are experiencing, the answer is usually that the bad guys are sending them thousands or even millions of POST requests. When I
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application ddos attacks

Application layer DDoS attacks, and how they can be mitigated

DDoS (distributed denial of service) and DoS (denial of service) attacks can be broadly classified into three categories based on the layers of the OSI model they target: network layer (Layer 3), transport layer (Layer 4), and application layer (Layer 7). Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks are typically less complexeven though that they might
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

The WAF is dead, long live the WAF!

The web application firewall (WAF) is a security tool used to guard against unwanted access to web applications. It is often a security device that sits on top of a web server and guards against threats from the internet or from beyond the network perimeter. Unlike Layer 3 (Network) and Layer 4 (Transport) firewalls, which
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Zombie Kex Regin Yahoo AOL

Hvernig á að takast á við nýjar mælingar tækni; Zombie smákökur og Canvas fingraför

Canvas fingraför, og Zombie kex rekja spor einhvers eru ekkert nýtt; Hins vegar, þessar aðferðir eru endurbættar og hafa orðið alræmdar árangursríkar með tímanum. Nýlega, a study revealed that one in every four 10,000 most visited websites on the internet uses canvas fingerprinting to track the visitors with up to 99.9% accuracy. The tracking attempt to collect
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PHP Suhosin

Endalok Suhosin; hvað er næst?

Í mörg ár, Ég zealously hafa notað Suhosin með hvaða gerð af PHP5 á Apache2 eða PHP-FPM Nginx vefþjóna til að verja gegn SQL innspýting og öðrum algengum árásum vefur. In fact, PHP5 was so disastrous, both in terms of its core security, and its functions and modules that I could have never conceived using it
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