Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date.
The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge with over 330 million
A threat actor has leaked approximately 20 million BigBasket user records containing personal information and hashed passwords on a popular hacking forum. BigBasket is a popular Indian online grocery delivery service that allows people to shop online for food and deliver it to their homes. This morning, a well-known seller of data breaches known as…
Pats Itself on the Back. The June patch set from Intel brings its vulnerabilities total to 132 for the first six months of 2021, with 70 percent of those having been discovered and mitigated before they were publicly disclosed, Bryant said. Quiet, nonpublic discovery and mitigation is a nice turnaround for Intel, Bryant said.
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Chris Inglis to serve as the country’s first national cyber director, Jen Easterly to direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and additional Homeland Security Department leaders. Lawmakers of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where both nominees delivered input, praised their selection Monday. Inglis, a former deputy director of the…
Ivanti, the company behind Pulse Secure VPN appliances, has released a security patch to remediate a critical security vulnerability that was found being actively exploited in the wild by at least two different threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2021-22893 (CVSS score 10), the flaw concerns “multiple use after free” issues in Pulse Connect Secure that could…
This week Microsoft finally took a step that’s been years in the making: The company said it will retire its embattled Internet Explorer web browser on June 15, 2022. IE launched in 1995 and came preinstalled on every Windows device for almost 20 years beginning in 1997. But its ubiquity should not be confused with…
