Educating your customers on best practices for securing their accounts is the best defense against botnets. To better protect your platform from the larger attacks often preceded by botnet attacks, the most effective approach is a layered security stack tailored to your business. Telesign deploys th...
How IP spoofing enables it:IP spoofing allows botnet attacks to happen from start to finish for many reasons. First, since IP spoofing is hard to detect, it means device owners will likely stay unaware of any malicious activity going on. Second, IP spoofing enables hackers to quickly get thr...
Definitely.Unless you have permission from everyone whose computer you use, creating a botnet is illegal. The tasks that most hackers use botnets for—likeDDoS attacks—are also illegal on their own. Some legitimate “distributed computing” projects, like Folding@home, which uses your spare comput...
(or just paranoid), additional measures may be taken to protect against login attacks. Setting up secondaryHTTPpassword protectionis an excellent way to further lock things down. Either of these strategies should protect your site against brute-force attacks, but we can do even more with a bit...
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Discover the ongoing threat of Mirai botnets and learn how to mitigate it and other advanced DDoS threats, including UDP, TCP, and ICMP flooding attacks.
Though awareness of the destructive potential of ransomware has been growing over recent years, ransomware attacks continue to plague individuals, businesses, and governments. The first documented ransomware attack, known as the AIDS Trojan or the PC Cyborg, was launched in 1989 by Dr. Joseph Popp...
This botnet army can consist of susceptible Internet of Things (IoT) devicesthat often run on default passwords and have weak security features. Such devices, once under an attacker's control, can become part of formidable arsenals used for extensive cyberattacks. Some attackers even monetize thei...