What is IP spoofing?
Spoofed IP packets with forged source addresses are often used in attacks to avoid detection. What is IP spoofing? IP spoofing is the creation of Internet Protocol (IP) packets with…
NTP amplification DDoS attack
A volumetric DDoS attack that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the NTP protocol, flooding a server with UDP traffic. What is a NTP amplification attack? An NTP amplification attack…
What is a DNS flood? | DNS flood DDoS attack
A DNS flood is a DDoS attack that aims to flood and overwhelm a target DNS server. What is a DNS Flood? Domain Name System (DNS) servers are the “phonebooks”…
Broken Keyboard – SEIM Monitoring
Steves’s Keyboard must be broken. He keeps hitting the escape key, but he’s still at work.
Best Buy plans to phase out sales of physical movies in the coming months.
NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy is saying goodbye to movie-watching with physical discs. The consumer electronics retailer plans to phase out its DVD and Blu-ray sales by early 2024…
Microsoft is ready to kill off Patch Tuesday as we know it
Say hello to ‘Regular Tuesday’ For many organizations, Patch Tuesday will soon become “just another Tuesday”, because Microsoft is preparing to roll out a new tool that automates the patch…
October 2023 Patch Tuesday forecast: Operating system updates and zero-days aplenty
September has been a packed month of continuous updates. Apple and Microsoft released new operating systems, and several vulnerabilities exploited in web services resulted in a domino effect of zero-day…
AT&T Data Breaches: Full Timeline Through 2023
The most recent AT&T data breach occurred in March 2023, when AT&T notified 9 million customers that their data had been exposed following an attack on a third-party vendor. As…