Over the last few years, the threat posed by Distribute Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has increased at an alarming pace. The frequency, magnitude and sophistication of DDoS attacks has grown as botnets and automated attack tools are readily available to cyber criminals. Today,...
Rampant malicious activity in cyberspace hurts individuals, companies, and government agencies, while threatening US national security. The expected release of a new National Cybersecurity Strategy by the Biden Administration is an occasion for us to learn lessons from past efforts to reduce cyber risk,...
Singtel said the new capability identifies and blocks cyber threats at the network level thus preventing them from reaching the network’s users
Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel unveiled its new 5G security-as-a-slice (SecaaS) offering, the telco said in a release.
The new capability identifies and blocks cyber...
Protocol DDoS attack success is measured not by their size but rather their frequency and persistence
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks temporarily or indefinitely disrupt services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. There are three attacks in this...
The DNS layer is considered the 'phonebook' of the internet
During an application or Layer 7 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a bad actor or actors exploit weaknesses in the layer of a website that interfaces between human input and the site’s technical backend. In Layer...
HTTP flood is the most common type of application layer DDoS attacks
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks refer to a malicious actor or actors temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. There are...
Comcast Business says it mitigated 24,845 multi-vector DDoS attacks in 2021
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) DDoS attacks refer to a malicious actor or actors temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. While larger-scale...
AT&T: 'Volumetric attacks could hit new peaks'
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks refer to a malicious actor or actors temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. DDoS attacks typically target edge network devices...
ZTE said its 5G new radio (NR) gNodeB product has complied with the security requirements of Germany
Chinese vendor ZTE said its 5G New Radio (NR) gNodeB product has been approved under Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)’s NESAS (network equipment security assurance scheme)...
The high-altitude Chinese balloon that traveled over the United States in the past week was equipped to "collect and geolocate" communications signals, according to the U.S. Department of State and published reports.
Chinese officials have claimed that the balloon was a "civilian airship" used for...
Cisco has introduced a number of new cloud services in its IoT operations dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and manage assets remotely and securely. At its annual Cisco Live event in Amsterdam, the firm said it had focused on ways to bridge the...
Wireless technology has revolutionized the way businesses operate, connecting employees and devices seamlessly. However, with the increasing use of wireless technology comes the need for proper installation and maintenance to ensure network security. Whether you're a business owner or a corporate IT professional, understanding...
Cybersecurity continues its evolution and organizations are focused on it more holistically, as part of business outcomes rather than as component parts, according to Theresa Lanowitz of AT&T. Lanowitz, who is the head of evangelism for AT&T Business' cybersecurity segment, draws on insights gathered...
Leaders in every industry are turning to AI to transform their businesses.
For the Telecommunications industry, AI delivers value through the terabytes of data collected every day—from network elements to customer interactions—and through the resulting insights related to managing increased network demand, combating cyberthreats, optimizing...
T-Mobile US has suffered another data breach, with the company disclosing that a single Application Programming Interface (API) was used to "obtain limited types of information" on some of its customers.
T-Mo said it was in the process of informing those customers, and that...
The consortium will develop are artificial intelligence systems to detect a range of cyberattacks on 5G network slices as they happen
The University of Waterloo announced a "5G and beyond" mobile network technology consortium with the aim of developing secure 5G network slices and improving...
Trend Micro said that organizations need to integrate resources to combat emerging threats in the private 5G networks field more effectively
Trend Micro has established CTOne, which is a new subsidiary of the company that will focus on advancing 5G network security, the company said...
As promised and previewed last week, here is a full transcript of the interview with Marc Overton, managing director of BT’s industrial go-to-market business Division X – from a conversation a couple of months back, at the UK operator’s annual Robotics Festival at its...
Risk of intellectual property (IP) theft, including of industrial trade secrets, is rising fast as manufacturing companies connect private equipment and processes. Analyst house ABI Research has put a figure on both the rate of IP risk and rate of IoT connectivity, forecasting that...
Want to know how to scale private 5G across manufacturing plants and manufacturing applications? Well, European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus knows how. Of course, if you have followed the Airbus story in these pages, or caught its feature presentations and panel discussions at...
The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has appointed Nokia to deploy a private 5G macro network across four new lines and 68 new stations in the French capital, covering 200 kilometres...
ZTNA joins Secure Connect and SD-WAN features, available through Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Exchange
Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) solution provider Cradlepoint on Wednesday announced the addition of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to its NetCloud Exchange (NCX) suite. This marks the third cybersecurity enhancement to NCX,...
Network design and services firm Betacom has struck a channel sales deal (“integrated delivery model”) with Qualcomm whereby enterprise customers in the Industry 4.0 space will be able to link Betacom’s private 5G network design and management service with Qualcomm’s RAN automation and management...
Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...
