Can you "big tech" a way out of a pandemic? Many governments around the world are trying, and Australia is joining the herd with a contact tracing app. But Australia has a splotchy record of large government tech projects, including in health, that may result in low voluntary adoption of an app.
If Iowa's experiment with a new tabulation app during the Democratic caucuses is the warmup for the 2020 presidential election process, then we're in for a bumpy ride. But what happened there isn't a technology problem. It's a human problem rooted in a failure to properly evaluate risk.
It's a seductive story line: A chat app belonging to Saudi Arabia's crown prince is used to deliver malware to an American billionaire's phone. But a forensic investigation of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone raises more questions than it answers.
Internet crime has grown so rapidly that law enforcement is outpaced. Here's the story of how a Manhattan doctor lost $200,000 in an internet scam, and why he's struggling to get law enforcement's attention.
It is not always obvious to a network or system administrator that the company's infrastructure is under attack. The prime suspect of a network slowdown is technical problem or traffic congestion. An attack usually has a buildup stage, and only as the attack progresses further and sustains will someone get to the...
"We've made the investments in our shields, they must work" - this statement must have been decried by legions of ancient soldiers as this age-old defense decayed before their eyes and they were crushed on the battlefield. In fact, the graveyard is littered with 'proven' defense strategies which, given time, have...
More and more organizations realize that DDoS threats should receive higher priority in their security planning. However, many still believe that the traditional security tools such as firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) can help them deal with the DDoS threat. This post explains why...
During the RSA conference this past February in San Francisco, I gave a lecture titled "Stock Exchanges in the Line of Fire - Morphology of Cyber Attacks." Based predominantly on my experience as part of Radware's Emergency Response Team (ERT) that provides 24/7 DDoS attack mitigation support, I focused on...
If you can recall last October, undercover FBI agents foiled a plot to attack the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City in the same week that a ninth bank was hit in what has been an ongoing cyber-assault on financial institutions in the United States. While these two different types of attacks, one physical and one...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is unique in the sense that these attacks actually consist of many legitimate individual requests. It is only the large volume of simultaneous requests that turns those legitimate requests into an attack. Consequently, one of the biggest challenges in mitigating DDoS attacks is...
Imagine the following scenario: You're a hosting company and you receive a call from one of the largest banks in the United States informing you that they are currently experiencing a cyber attack. Why are they calling you? The attack is coming from your servers.
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