Next year, a hacktivist organization or nation-state will launch a coordinated attack against the infrastructure of the internet.The industry already saw the impact of an attack against a critical piece of internet infrastructure when a DDoS attack against DNS hosting provider, Dyn, took down many popular websites including Twitter, Reddit, and Amazon.com. Around the same
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WatchGuard’s AuthPoint and Firebox M270 have again made headlines, this time winning honors in Cyber Defense Magazine’s Cyber Defense Global Awards 2018! AuthPoint was recognized as a Leader in the Multi-Factor Authentication category, and the Firebox M270 was also named a Leader for Unified Threat Management (UTM). The Cyber Defense Global Awards program is a new
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When users hear or read “SSH” (the acronym stands for Secure SHell) they expect it to be just that – a secure shell from your physical location to wherever the destination computer may be; and “secured” in terms of requiring authentication and verification of messages. The programming libraries that support SSH include OpenSSH and libssh
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Yahoo’s mega-breach made headlines again this week, as the company has now admitted that employees knew about the attack when it first happened. As you might recall, the company announced in September 2016 that an unknown attacker gained access to 500 million user accounts back in 2014. Yahoo users’ email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates,
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Weak or stolen passwords have remained a thorn in the side of the information security industry for far too long. In fact, according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Report, more than 80 percent of breaches in 2017 leveraged stolen user credentials. Also, according to a new survey led by independent market research firm CITE
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