Displaying items by tag: Denial of Service

GUEST OPINION: Australia is progressing steadily with an open banking rollout. The Big Four banks – CBA, Westpac, ANZ and National Australia Bank – introduced open banking in July 2021, and other banks and financial services are expected to follow in 2022. According to many fintechs, however, the introduction is going slower than expected, and they are pushing financial markets to open their banking services online by signing additional data holders.

Eighty percent of incidents reported to the F5 Security Incident Response Team in Australia and New Zealand in 2021 so far were DoS (denial-of-service) attacks, according to a cyber attack research conducted by security and delivery company F5 in collaboration with Effluxio.

Two men from Bendigo, aged 27 and 28, have been charged by the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police in connection with automated denial-of-service attacks on police phone lines in October last year.

Security company Trustwave says it has found a flaw in the web server used by Brother printers which could lead to a denial of service.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more frequent and complex, forcing businesses to deploy purpose-built DDoS protection solutions, according to a new infrastructure security report which warns that the threat landscape has been transformed by the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) botnets.

The number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world will triple over the next five years, reaching over 46 billion in 2021.

Global Internet performance and security company  CloudFlare has expanded into Melbourne with deployment to NextDC’s M1 data centre.

Security researchers have revealed the existence of a vulnerability that could be used to effectively disable iOS devices in range of a malicious Wi-Fi access point.

Denial of Service and network security vendor Arbor Networks has trumped competitors to win the Best of Show grand prize for security products at Interop, Japan’s largest internet technology event.

The Apache Software Foundation has issued a new version of its server software to fix a serious denial of service vulnerability.

2010 is going out with a bang as far as Microsoft security patches are concerned. December's Patch Tuesday will see a whopping 17 updates addressing 40 vulnerabilities.