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[UPDATED - New record set at 1.7Tbs] On Tuesday, February 27, three major DDoS mitigation service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare and Arbor) warned that they had seen spikes in a relatively rare form of reflection/amplification DDoS attack via Memcached servers.

As the Threat Landscape Shifts, So Too Must Protections

RMH Franchise Holdings revealed on Friday that malware had been found on point-of-sale (PoS) systems at the Applebee’s restaurants it operates as a franchise.

Microsoft Dissects FinFisher’s Complex Infection Process

Taiwan-based Delta Electronics has patched several vulnerabilities in two of the company’s industrial automation products, including flaws that can be exploited for remote code execution.

Nuance Communications, one of the companies to have been impacted by the destructive NotPetya attack last year, estimates the financial cost of the attack at over $90 million.

Even though I've been analyzing malware for the past 20 years, I do understand that internet security is not merely a technical problem, but also a business problem. I agree that any company's security expenditures should be seen through the prism of proper risk and return analysis. Security is, in this respect, no different than other investment choices a business must make.

The first column in this series focused on the preparation phase of Incident Response (IR), while the second covered what I call the response phase.

A threat actor apparently interested in inter-Korean affairs continues to launch highly targeted attacks using new pieces of malware and decoy documents referencing North Korean political topics.

Microsoft announced on Thursday that Windows users will receive the microcode updates released by Intel to patch the notorious Spectre vulnerability.

US credit bureau Equifax said Thursday it identified an additional 2.4 million American consumers affected by last year's massive data breach that sparked a public outcry and a congressional probe.

The Iran-based targeted attack group known as "Chafer" has been expanding its target list in the Middle East and beyond and adding new tools to its cyberweapon arsenal, Symantec warns.

Philips has informed customers that it’s working on patches for dozens of vulnerabilities affecting the company’s IntelliSpace Portal, a visualization and analysis solution designed for healthcare organizations.

A newly identified remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been written entirely in Python is being used in highly targeted attacks, Cisco Talos researchers say.

The German government's IT network is under an "ongoing" cyberattack", the parliamentary committee on intelligence affairs said Thursday, without confirming a media report that Russian hackers were behind the assault.