Why SSL/TLS Attacks Are on the Rise (Computerworld) New research from Zscaler reports that “as enterprises get better about encrypting network traffic to protect data from potential attacks or exposure, online attackers are also stepping up their SSL/TLS game to hide their malicious activities.”.This Typosquatting Attack on npm Went Undetected for 2 weeks (The Register) According to The Register, “A two-week-old campaign to steal developers’ credentials using malicious code distributed through npm, the Node.js package management registry, has been halted with the removal of 39 malicious npm packages.”.The Lab team said the attack has “a 131% hourly increase compared to the longest attack recorded earlier this year.” Chinese Telecom DDoS Attack Breaks Record (Dark Reading) Two-hundred and 77 hours: that’s how long a DDoS attack on a Chinese telecom company lasted earlier this year, according to a new report published this week by Kaspersky Lab.As a result, service providers must revisit their DDoS defenses and strategies on a regular basis, on top of re-evaluating their effectiveness and ability to meet their needs.” Sophisticated DDoS Attacks Drive Service Providers to Seek Better Approach (Frost & Sullivan) A new report called “Service Provider Requirements for DDoS Mitigation” from Frost & Sullivan discusses how “DDoS attacks have become more formidable than ever, growing year-over-year in terms of scale, frequency and sophistication.The process also helps ensure that Netflix can continue to provide service to its customers even if one of its regions goes down or experiences problems during a Chaos Kong all user traffic gets rerouted from a particular region, ideally without customers noticing.” According to the story, “Netflix engineers reroute customers away from a certain region of production servers so they can have a real-world sandbox in which to experiment. How Netflix DDoS’ed Itself to Protect the Entire Internet (Wired) In a Wired feature out this week, Scott Behrens, a security engineer at Netflix, talks about how the streaming giant tests DDoS attacks.Also in the news this week, China and Russia both cracked down on VPN usage. And new Kaspersky Lab research recognized a Chinese telecom as seeing the biggest DDoS attack in Q2. Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan talks about how service providers need better DDoS mitigation. A new Wired feature talks about how streaming giant Netflix tests against these disruptive attacks. This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team.ĭDoS attacks and their mitigation efforts are all over the news this week.
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