On Wednesday, GitHub survived the largest DDoS attack to date, with the traffic at about 1.3 Tbps (Terabits per second). The previous largest recorded attack took place in 2016 when the Mirai Botnet launched a 1.2 Tbps DDoS against DYN DNS, bringing down their site, and much of the internet along with it. What caused these most recent attacks? Was this another botnet … [Read more...]
With Certificates, Who Do We Actually Trust?
A cryptographic certificate tells us if a website or program is trusted and from a valid company. This trust model only works if we trust that the issuers of certificates have taken appropriate steps to verify ownership before issuing a certificate for a company. This verification allows us to believe that a certificate for any given company name was legitimately created for … [Read more...]
When Big Tech Leave Open Access
Tesla is known not just as a car company but as a technology company, as is evident by their heavy presence in Amazon AWS. Hackers recently took advantage of this reliance on tech by gaining access to and using Tesla’s AWS account to run their own cryptocurrency mining operation. According to a recent report from RedLock, hackers gained access to a Tesla management console, … [Read more...]
2018 Security Predictions – A Major Cryptocurrency Will Fall
2017 was another scary year for cyber security. Malware is at an all-time high, global ransomware damages are predicted to exceed $5 billion, and data records are being stolen by hackers at a rate of more than 5 million a day. Just this year, we’ve seen spy tools leaked from U.S. intelligence agencies, political campaign hacking, state-sponsored ransomware, global IoT botnets, … [Read more...]
Could Novice Hackers Really Breach This U.S. Voter Fraud Prevention Org?
Gizmodo recently reported that a government program that’s designed to tamp down on election fraud has been putting the personal data and financial well-being of American voters at risk. Known as the “Interstate Crosscheck System,” the program currently has 28 states enrolled and has processed almost 100 million voter records in 2017. According to the article, Gizmodo enlisted … [Read more...]
