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Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack

By Waqas According to Google, the geographic distribution of the DDoS attack suggests that it might have been launched through… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack

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Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second

Google's cloud division on Thursday disclosed it mitigated a series of HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks which peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest such recorded to date. The attack, which occurred on June 1, targeting an unnamed Google Cloud Armor customer, is 76% larger than the 26 million RPS DDoS attack repealed by Cloudflare earlier this

ThreatX Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Growth in Global API Protection Market

Funds will support product development and market expansion for ThreatX, which delivers real-time protection for APIs and Web apps against complex botnets, DDoS, and multimode attacks.

RubyGems Makes Multi-Factor Authentication Mandatory for Top Package Maintainers

RubyGems, the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, has become the latest platform to mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for popular package maintainers, following the footsteps of NPM and PyPI. To that end, owners of gems with over 180 million total downloads are mandated to turn on MFA effective August 15, 2022. "Users in this category who do not

CVE-2020-23622: CVE-2020-12695: CallStranger Vulnerability in Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Puts Billions of Devices At Risk

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** An issue in the UPnP protocol in 4thline cling 2.0.0 through 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an unchecked CALLBACK parameter in the request header.

Credential Theft Is (Still) A Top Attack Method

Credential theft is clearly still a problem. Even after years of warnings, changing password requirements, and multiple forms of authentication, password stealing remains a top attack method used by cyber criminals. The latest report from the Ponemon Institute shares that 54% of security incidents were caused by credential theft, followed by ransomware and DDoS attacks. 59% of organizations

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

‘Summer Camp’ for hackers features a compromised satellite, a homecoming for hackers and cyberwarfare warnings.

Killnet Claim They’ve Stolen Employee Data from Lockheed Martin

By Waqas The pro-Russia Killnet hacker group claims that the stolen information includes PII data such as email addresses and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Killnet Claim They’ve Stolen Employee Data from Lockheed Martin

Ways That VoIP Technology Is Impacting Marketplaces and How to Adapt

By Owais Sultan VoIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol. It allows users to communicate wirelessly and with high-quality sound. This has… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ways That VoIP Technology Is Impacting Marketplaces and How to Adapt

Crucial Cybersecurity Software Features (2022)

By Owais Sultan Cyberattacks aim to breach device, program, and system defenses to access critical company or individual data. If a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crucial Cybersecurity Software Features (2022)