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602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

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Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack</i> is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.</div>
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Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of this attack, and the most recent one was conducted against the <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC</b>'s websites and Republican presidential candidate <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Donald Trump</b>'s main campaign website over this past holiday weekend.</div>
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Out of two, the largest DDoS attack in the history was carried out against the BBC website: <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over 600 Gbps</b>.</div>
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Largest DDoS Attack in the History</h3>
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The group calling itself <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New World Hacking</b> claimed responsibility for taking down both the BBC's global website and Donald Trump's website last week.</div>
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The group targeted all BBC sites, including its iPlayer on-demand service, and took them down for at least three hours on New Year's Eve.</div>
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At the moment, the BBC news organization announced that the outage was caused due to some "technical" fault, but later it stated that "New World Hacking" group had claimed responsibility for launching a DDoS attack against BBC, as a <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"test of its capabilities."</i></div>
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BangStresser DDoS Attack Tool</h3>
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One of the members of the New World Hacking group, identified himself as Ownz, claimed that the group allegedly used their own tool called <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BangStresser</b> to launch a <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DDoS attack of up to 602 Gbps </i>on the BBC's website.</div>
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As a proof, the group <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/attackers-targeting-bbc-donald-trump-amazon-web-services/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #4184f3; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">provided</a> ZDNet a screenshot of a web interface that was allegedly used to attack the BBC website.</div>
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Although the authenticity of the screenshot has not been verified, if the attack size is proven true, it would vastly surpass the largest DDoS attack record of 334 Gbps, recorded by Arbor Networks last year.</div>
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The recent massive DDoS attack apparently utilizes two <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon Web Services</b> servers that employ a large number of automated detection and mitigation techniques in order to prevent the misuse of the services, Amazon previously claimed.</div>
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More details about the attack have yet not disclosed, but Ownz claimed that their main purpose behind the development of the BangStresser DDoS tool is to unmask ISIS and possibly end its online propaganda.</div>
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A similar group named <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lizard Squad</b>, conducted a marketing campaign for promoting their DDoS tool, known as the Lizard Stresser, using which the group took down Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live last year on Christmas Eve.</div>
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602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one ...

This Antenna Can Remotely Steal Data From Devices using Sound Waves

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Remember the previously demonstrated technique to Hack into air-gapped computers using Heatwaves?</div>
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What if the same was possible to hack computers to steal data using <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sound waves</b>?</div>
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Imagine, If a remote hacker could steal classified information from a targeted computer without having to physically and Internet access to it.</div>
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A team of security researchers has demonstrated exactly the same by developing a new hacking technique called <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Funtenna</b> that uses sound and radio waves to siphon data from computers even without Internet access.</div>
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According to a lead researcher <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang Cui</b> of Red Balloon Security, the Funtenna radio signal hack has the potential to turn Internet-connected devices (printer, washing machine and air conditioner) – popularly known as the <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet of Things </b>– into bugs that can transmit data out of a network using sound waves that can not be heard by a human ear.</div>
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How Funtenna Works?</h3>
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The attacker only needs to install malware on a target's device such as a printer, office phone, or a computer.</div>
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The malware overtakes the control of the electronic circuit of the device (general-purpose input/output circuits) and vibrates them at a frequency (which transmits radio signal) of the attacker's preference.</div>
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An attacker then can pick up these signals using an AM radio antenna (Funtenna) from a short distance away.</div>
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"You have network detection, firewalls… but this transmits data in a way that none of those things are monitoring, this fundamentally challenges how certain we can be of our network security," <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/311689-funtenna-hacking-sound-waves/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3d5a99; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a> Cui.</blockquote>
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Here, the hacked devices are themselves acting as transmitters. Therefore, the new Funtenna technique bypasses all conventional network security methodologies.</div>
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You can also <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">watch a video demonstration</i></b> of how Funtenna works below:</div>
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The US-administered non-profit corporation <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-08-05-en" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3d5a99; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">admitted</a> on Wednesday that its server security was breached within the past week and that…</div>
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…an "<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unauthorised person</i>" <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gained access to usernames</b>,<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> email addresses</b></i>, and encrypted passwords for profile accounts on <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ICANN.org</i> public website.</div>
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The organisation believes that the leaked information includes harmless information such as user preferences, public biographies, interests, newsletters, and subscriptions.</div>
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Less than ten months ago, ICANN was hacked by a hacker who gained access to its internal system following a spear phishing attack in November last year. Employees were tricked into handing over their credentials after receiving malicious emails apparently sent from the ICANN's own domain.</div>
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With those details, the hackers then managed to access ICANN systems, including the <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Centralized Zone Data System</i></b> (CZDS), the <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">domain registration Whois portal</i></b>, the wiki pages of the ICANN<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Governmental Advisory Committee</i></b> (GAC), and ICANN blog.</div>
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The passwords compromised in the latest data breach were encrypted one-way using the bcrypt algorithm.</div>
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However, there's no evidence that any profile accounts, or its internal systems have been accessed without authorization, nor any operational data, financial data, or <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) systems</i></b> were involved.</div>
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The IANA is also a part of ICANN, which performs the actual management of the DNS root zone, globally-unique names and numbers.</div>
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Users are recommended to change their online account passwords, or just not using the same password across multiple websites.</div>
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Global Internet Authority — ICANN Hacked Again! ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) – the organisation responsi...

SSL Encryption — Securing Internet of Things (IoT) Wednesday

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By assigning IP address to all sorts of devices, ranging from household appliances, machines, medical devices and sensors to other day-to-day objects, and putting them all together on a standardised network is a common Internet of Things (IoT) practice.</div>
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Is Internet of Things Secure?</h3>
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In my previous articles, I gave you a glance of the most vulnerable smart cities that are increasingly adopting devices connected to the Internet in an attempt to add convenience and ease to daily activities.</div>
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By 2020, there will be more than 45 Billion Internet-connected devices that will transform the way we live and work.</div>
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As the number of IoT enabled systems increases, the complexity of handling them increases; leading to an introduction of new risk and vulnerabilities associated with them.</div>
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Security of Internet of Things (IoT) Can’t Be Ignored</h3>
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The risks can be mitigated by more robust authentication methods at the time when the ‘<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet-connected devices</b></i>’ initiate communication with each other, hence developing secure identification management.</div>
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For secure communication among the IoT devices, many security mechanisms and protocols have been implemented, including:</div>
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As it is evident, Security solutions for embedded devices connected to the Internet is also necessary. The devices also need to be secured from attacks like eavesdropping, DDoS and tampering of network traffic.</div>
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SSL Encryption for Internet of Things (IoT)</h3>
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For SSL/TLS implementation in IoT devices, INSIDE Secure has introduced a new open source embedded SSL called <a href="http://www.matrixssl.org/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3d5a99; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MatrixSSL Tiny</b></u></a> as an extension to MatrixSSL - a source for web servers to implement encryption layer for secure management of remote devices.</div>
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MatrixSSL Tiny is going to be demonstrated this week at Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, where the security researchers will be representing its full suite of security products and will talk about its solution for cyber attacks focussed at IoT.</div>
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MatrixSSL Tiny is a lightweight TLS software implementation for IoT devices with limited memory to make secure communications among them, yet demand more robust security to prevent eavesdropping and tampering of network traffic.</div>
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The software also performs real time functions that nulls the memory on completion of a particular session. According to researchers, MatrixSSL Tiny is the world’s smallest, yet powerful IoT security solution.</div>
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Why SSL is Not Sufficient?</h3>
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Despite developments for enhancing the security, IoT infrastructure is still massively prone to cyber attacks that lead to offer open gateways for people with malicious intents.</div>
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Any command initiated on a smart device, be it an application or a firmware, must be verified through a chain of trust.</div>
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If we consider a situation, where communication is taking place on a traditional IT system and an IoT smart device, we see that IT systems follow a layered security procedure; whereas in IoT smart devices authenticity and confidentiality can be tampered with.</div>
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Therefore, multi-layer security measures are needed for IoT devices too so that the IoT devices could differentiate that the information received or sent is by an authorized user or an intruder.</div>
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The security of IoT enabled devices are becoming critical and a thing of concern for the security enablers. The point to be worried about is its future developments where, it is seen as a boon and not a bane.</div>
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