Hackers release source code for a powerful DDoS app called Mirai

Hackers release source code for a powerful DDoS app called Mirai

After doing heavy damage to KrebsOnSecurity and other web servers the creator of the Mirai botnet, a program designed to harness insecure IoT devices to run massive denial of service attacks, has apparently released the source code on Github….

How Frances TV5 was almost destroyed by Russian hackers

A powerful cyber-attack came close to destroying a French TV network, its director-general has told the BBC. TV5Monde was taken off air in April 2015. A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate, linked to so-called Islamic State, first claimed responsibility….

Cybersecurity: don’t learn the hard way

Often we are told, to understand something we need to experience it for ourselves. This The post Cybersecurity: don't learn the hard way appeared first on OSINT ….

MITRE will award $50,000 for a solution that detects rogue IoT Devices

MITRE has challenged the security community to devise new methods that could help in detecting The post MITRE will award $50,000 for a solution that detects rogue IoT Devices appeared first on OSINT ….

Security Think Tank: Four key elements to defending against phishing attacks

Fraudulent and malicious electronic mail continues to be a favoured method for attackers to create a network breach from the inside. Like the famed Greek horse at Troy , years of work on an impenetrable outside wall can be undone from the inside with the click of a mouse….