DDoS Attack Takes Down Eastern European Website For Hours
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a malicious attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. With the growing number of people and businesses relying on the Internet, the frequency and severity of these attacks has increased. One such attack recently took down an Eastern European website for […]
Why You Should Care Whether Or Not Your ISP Provides DDoS Protection
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack happens when many computers send packets of data to one server simultaneously. These attacks can cripple a company’s website and render it inaccessible to consumers. ISPs have been providing DDoS protection for years, but some are starting to cut back on the service, so it’s important to know if your […]
Thousands of Redis Instances Are Publicly Accessible to Attackers
Redis is a data structure store that has often been used as a caching layer in web applications. It is also often used as the primary data store for real-time analytics use cases. such as fraud detection. Redis is also popular with many developers due to its low memory footprint and easy configuration options, plus […]
Types Of DDoS Mitigation Services Explained
For many businesses, downtime can result in significant losses. However, if your company is prone to DDoS attacks then this statistic might be especially relevant to you. The numbers say that downtime lasts between seven and twelve hours which is a significant period of time for any business and leaves a huge dent in profits […]
Understanding Port Scanning: What is a Port and why is it Important?
Port scanning is a process that enables you to find out what ports are open on a given IP address. This process is usually done by sending connection requests to the port and checking for the response. In some cases, the port will respond with an error message such as “connection refused” or “connection timed […]
North Korean Hackers Spreading Trojanized Versions of PuTTY Client Application
This is EXACTLY the more reasons to use Lectron to reverse proxy SSH ports, because it will then isolate the SSH port from the public, and the remote proxy of Lectron already blocked malicious ASNs, including North Korean ASN from accessing So in case the server got compromised, North Korean agents still gets a difficult […]
How Cyberwarfare Actually Works
Why Dealing With DDoS Attacks Is The Most Important Thing In Cloud Security
DDoS attacks can have a huge impact on your business if they happen at the wrong time. Your customers could suddenly find themselves locked out and you could be under attack. Using solutions like Cloudflare and Sucuri to avoid downtime, as well as taking precautions like SiteLock, should get you to the next level of […]
IPGeo – A python tool to extract IP addresses from captured network traffic files (pcap/pcapng)
We found this tool that might benefit you Link: https://github.com/z-alami/IpGeo IpGeo is a python tool to extract IP addresses from captured network traffic file (pcap/pcapng) and generate csv report containing details about the geolocation of each ip in the packets. The report contains: Country: Country Code. Region Region Name City Zip Latitude Longitude Timezone Isp […]
The Most Common Complaints About WordPress Sites Hacked With Fake Cloudflare DDoS Alerts Pushing Malware, and Why They’re Bunk
A recent trend in hacking sites has been to disguise malware. They do this by changing the https scheme of the site to http, adding a custom Cloudflare URL, and then loading an unofficial page that downloads malware when it’s clicked on. These fake security pages are often used to display spam and phishing content […]
