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How DDoS attacks have evolved
As with most IT security threats, distributed denial of service attacks have evolved over time. Simple attacks at the network level designed to exhaust target bandwidth capacity have been complemented with more complex and subtle attacks that can bring down websites but leave the network standing, often without triggering DDoS mitigation.
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our security partner Radware that takes a look back over the 12 months since GDPR came into force.
Data breaches are expensive, and the costs are only going up.
Those reporting attacks that cost 10 million USD/EUR/GBP or more almost doubled from last year — from 7% in 2018 to 13% in 2019.
more →After a great 18/19 season, our most successful to date, activereach will be hosting another custom Fantasy Premier League. It is completely free to take part and activereach will donate £250 to the charity of the winner’s choice at the end of the season.
If you already take part in the official Fantasy Premier League game then you know the drill.
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On my way home from visiting a customer last week, I was thinking about a question that he had raised. He asked me “What is the best way to prepare for a DDoS attack?”
A DDoS attack is a special type of Denial of Service attack. Malicious traffic is generated from a multitude of sources and orchestrated from one central point.
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A recent article on Dark Reading by VP of Intelligence Adam Meyers at our partner Crowdstrike is titled “The Big E-Crime Pivot.” It puts forth the argument that cybercriminals “have begun to recognize that enterprise ransomware offers tremendous financial advantage over the more traditional tactics of wire fraud and account takeover.”
For those that don’t have time to read the full article, we have collated some of the highlights:
What is the Pivot?
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Do You Really Need A Cyber Incident Playbook?
As part of business continuity planning most organisations have a disaster recovery plan in place in case of a fire, flood or other business impacting incidents, so why should planning for a Cyber Security incident be any different? Building a strong Cyber Incident Playbook is vital and works together with in tandem with other procedures should issues arise.
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Almost every single computing device, laptop, desktop, router, firewall, keeps a record of things that have changed over time. Borrowing from maritime parlance, we call these “logs”. Logs are ledgers of changes in state, recorded and stored in sequence, and can tell you a lot about what that computing device has been doing, why it has been doing it, and when.
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High Wycombe, UK – 13th June 2019
activereach invited Kyrece’s Legacy to its offices yesterday – the charity had previously been chosen by activereach staff as their “charity of the year”. The charity discussed the great work that it is doing to promote water safety to young children in nearby schools.
Just wanted to express my praise on a great job done with Liverpool. Everything went off with basically no issues which makes the refit so much easier.
Leagues ahead of xxxxxxx!
Microsoft saw an increase in phishing by e-mail of 250% in 2018 to a high of 0.55% of all inbound email to Office365 users. Ransomware declined by 60% and malware, in general, by 37%.
Source: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report 2019
Solution: Stopping phishing attacks requires a multi-faceted solution of technical controls, awareness training, and detection methods for successful breaches - and good password and security hygeine by employees. Multi-factor authentication and/or PAM for administrators is essential.
