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Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud identity and access…
The Slowloris attack attempts to overwhelm a targeted server by opening and maintaining many simultaneous HTTP connections to the target. What is a Slowloris DDoS attack? Slowloris is a denial-of-service…
A low and slow attack is a DDoS attack that aims to stop a web service using extremely slow HTTP or TCP traffic. What is a low and slow attack?…
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Okta says attackers accessed files containing cookies and session tokens uploaded by customers to its support management system after breaching it using stolen credentials. “The threat actor was able to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Anycast is a network addressing and routing method in which incoming requests can be routed to various locations. What is Anycast? Anycast is a network addressing and routing method in…