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October 14, 2022

Mirai Botnet Hits Wynncraft Minecraft Server with 2.5 Tbps DDoS Attack

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare disclosed this week that it halted a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched by a Mirai botnet. Characterizing it as a “multi-vector attack consisting of UDP and TCP floods,” researcher Omer Yoachimik said the DDoS attack targeted the Minecraft server Wynncraft in Q3 2022. “The entire 2.5 Tbps […]

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Heat left by users’ fingertips could help hackers crack passwords, researchers claim

Boffins at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, have developed a system which they claim demonstrates a new type of cybersecurity threat: a “thermal attack.” According to the researchers, the falling price of heat-detecting thermal imaging cameras and advances in machine learning have made it more feasible to guess what passwords a target may have […]

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Digital Estate Planning – What to Do With Your Digital Assets

While we’re enjoying the fruits of digital life—our eBooks, movies, email accounts, social media profiles, eBay stores, photos, online games, and more—there will come a time we should ask ourselves, What happens to all of this good stuff when I die? Like anything else we own, those things can be passed along through our estates […]

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October 14, 2022

When What You Deleted is Not Really Deleted

ACM.79 When a process leaves sensitive data accessible to users or malware and what you can do about it. This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In the last post we created some SSH credentials for a user but the credentials ended up in a files in the home directory on our […]

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