F5Labs Whitepapers
For over a year now, F5 Labs and our data partner, Loryka, have been monitoring the ongoing hunt by attackers to find vulnerable IoT devices they can compromise. In our first report, DDoS’s Newest Minions: IoT Devices, our research proved what many security experts had long suspected: IoT devices were highly vulnerable to exploit, the level of interest in exploiting them was high, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using these devices were already occurring. Our findings and conclusions in Volume 11 rang true, and the new numbers show even steeper growth than we had imagined.
The NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate left many people scratching their heads in the winter of 2015. The directive instructed those that follow its guidelines to postpone moving from RSA cryptography to elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) if they hadn’t already done so.
Cyber security has been a work in progress for decades. As security pros, we’ve learned a lot about how to defend our networks. We have more tools at our disposal than ever before. And for the first time in history, we are receiving tangible support from upper management for security work. We’ve never had it so good, right? Yet, we feel more helpless than ever. Most of the time, we’re overwhelmed and feel like we’re perpetually playing catch up.
en years ago, if someone had told you that a toaster would someday play a role in disrupting service or entirely disabling your company’s website, you probably would’ve laughed them out of the room. The idea was completely absurd. It’s not anymore.