Author: Thomas J Ackermann

By Ionut Arghire on February 04, 2019 Attackers recently started abusing the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) for the reflection/amplification of distributed denial of service (dDoS) attacks, NETSCOUT warns. CoAP is a simple UDP protocol designed for low-power computers on unreliable networks that appears similar to HTTP, but which operates over UDP (User Datagram Protocol) port…

Senators Reintroduce DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act By Eduard Kovacs on February 04, 2019 United States Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) on Friday announced the reintroduction of the bipartisan Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act. The bill requires the DHS to create permanent…

By Eduard Kovacs on January 29, 2019 Medigate, a company that provides medical device security and asset management solutions, on Tuesday announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, which brings the total raised to date to over $20 million. The funding round was led by US Venture Partners (USVP) with…

By AFP on January 29, 2019 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused arch-foe Iran of regularly launching cyber-attacks on Israel that the Jewish state blocks each day. “Iran attacks Israel on a daily basis,” he told a cyber conference in Tel Aviv. “We monitor these attacks, we see these attacks and we foil these…

By Eduard Kovacs on January 30, 2019   Russia and China are capable of disrupting critical infrastructure in the United States, and Iran is not far behind, according to the Worldwide Threat Assessment made public by the U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday.   The assessment covers a wide range of threats, including cyber. Similar to…

von  Mathias Brandt 29.01.2019 5,2 Billionen US-Dollar Umsatz könnten Unternehmen weltweit durch Cyberattacken in den nächsten fünf Jahren entgehen. Das jedenfalls schätzen die Analysten von Accenture in der aktuellen Studie “Securing the Digital Economy: Reinventing the Internet for Trust”. Am stärksten betroffen ist die Hightech-Industrie mit mehr 753 Milliarden US-Dollar. Es folgen Biowissenschaften (642 Milliarden…

Too few cybersecurity professionals is a gigantic problem for 2019 Robert Ackerman@BobAckerman As the new year begins gaining steam, there is ostensibly a piece of good news on the cyber front. Major cyberattacks have been in a lull in recent months, and still are. The good tidings are fleeting, however. Attacks typically come in waves.…

So stellt sich Startrocket Werbung am Nachthimmel vor. (Screenshot: Vimeo/Sitnikov, t3n) by Brittany A. Roston – Jan 16, 2019 A Russian startup called StartRocket is working on a terrible idea: space billboards that glow from low Earth orbit. The company hopes to one day offer these space billboards to corporate customers, enabling them to display…

By Eduard Kovacs Researchers from Kaspersky Lab’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT) have found significant overlaps in GreyEnergy and Zebrocy activity, both of which were previously linked to Russia. GreyEnergy is a threat actor that is believed to be a successor of the notorious BlackEnergy group and experts estimate that it…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday announced the launch of Amazon WorkLink, a service that enables organizations to provide employees easy and secure access to internal websites and applications from their mobile devices without the need for a VPN or custom browser. When employees install Amazon WorkLink on their mobile devices, they can access their…

In a swimming pool in Krasnoyarsk, Russia a robot prototype prepares for an arctic journey. The robot is small enough, the preparations modest enough, that people swim laps as normal in the other half of the pool. This new tethered machine, with a quadcopter-inspired body, is built to scout the waters of Siberia, first for…

There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge. You can even 3D-print a life-size replica of a human head — and not just for Hollywood. Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D-printed model of his own head to test the face unlocking systems on a range of…

Russia’s nuclear-capable “doomsday” drone, named Poseidon by Russia and Kanyon by the U.S., is seen in this simulation played by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his state of the nation address, on March 1. RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE   Moscow has reportedly begun testing an underwater nuclear weapon that has been touted as invincible by…