DDoS
Vulnerable home routers expose ISPs to attacks, especially in Asean
More than 24 million home routers on the Internet have open DNS proxies which expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks, and the greatest concentration of such compromised routers can be found in Asean and China, said US-based Nominum.
More APAC businesses adopting DDoS protection solutions
Concerns on cyber-security in the wake of increasingly high-profile threats and attacks have spurred the distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection market in Asia Pacific, according to Frost & Sullivan.
Four things banks need to know about DDoS attacks
CIOs and CISOs need to have a plan in place and consider a broad set of defensive tools that combine on-premise technologies and cloud-based scrubbing services, writes Check Point Software Technologies.
Exposed: Cybercrime-as-a-Service
The increasing frequency, variety, and complexity of attacks are the product of an emerging ‘cybercrime-as-a-service’ provider market, write McAfee’s Raj Samani and François Paget.
RSA Silver Tail enlists big data analytics for cyber-defence
RSA has released the next iteration of its Silver Tail web threat detection solution, designed to help organisations better visualise website activity in order to identify normal behaviour from that of the potentially malicious.
Big data approach can help shore up cyber-defence: RSA
RSA's Art Coviello says IT security models that rely heavily on perimeter-based defences make it impossible to anticipate or spot unknown threats; the way to go is with an intelligence-driven security model, which leverages big data analytics.
EC website down: Incompetence, or more than meets the eye?
Malaysia's Election Commision website was down for more than 36 hours after the country's Parliament was dissolved. Edwin Yapp looks into how this could even happen, and its implications for the 13th General Election..
Infoblox tackles DNS security, eyes Malaysian market
Network control technology provider Infoblox launches three new products and eyes a bigger slice of the Malaysian market as part of its regional expansion efforts.
Cyber-war: Staying clear of DDoS attacks
According to several reports, cyber-attacks recently erupted between Malaysian and Filipino hackers over the Lahad Datu intrusion. The evolution of DDoS attacks highlights the urgency with which governments and businesses must adopt a security strategy to defend themselves.
Fortinet arms Malaysian providers against DDoS attacks
Fortinet has announced the immediate availability of the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, web-hosting and cloud service providers in Malaysia.
