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Forrester predicts that more than 500,000 internet of things (IoT) devices will suffer a compromise in 2017, dwarfing Heartbleed. Drop the mic—enough said. With the sheer velocity of how the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks spread through...

Mirai, the botnet that subverted thousands of poorly secured internet of things devices and set them to work on denial of service attacks, has been revealed to be the creation of a young developer who found that the black hat fit better than the white...

Among the many powers that Donald Trump inherits from Barack Obama today is control over a burgeoning cyber-weapon arsenal — an arsenal that pierced Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and is now proliferating in ways we have to imagine so we can protect ourselves...

On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices like wireless routers and security cameras into a botnet for use in...

Q3 events Cybercrime as a Service In the last few months the scale of the global ‘Cybercrime as a Service’ infrastructure has been revealed – fully commercialized, with DDoS as one of the most popular services capable of launching attacks the likes...