GUEST OPINION: The cyber security world is in turmoil. A new generation of aggressive, layer 7 (L7), HTTPS Flood attacks, also known as Web DDoS Tsunami attacks, is disrupting the market by bypassing organisations’ traditional DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF) solutions.
Sendai City in the Tohoku Region of Japan and Nokia have successfully conducted a test flight of a Nokia drone on a private LTE network provided by Nokia Digital Automation Cloud, to test the potential to use drones for tsunami evacuation alerts.
Palo Alto’s Unit 42 has identified a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet “Tsunami” dubbed “Amnesia” that targets commercial grade closed circuit TV DVR (digital video recorder) devices made by TVT Digital and branded by over 70 vendors worldwide. About 227,000 devices are affected.
Would you and your organisation be ready to cope with a disaster on the scale of this year's Japan and New Zealand earthquakes?