Threatpost’s Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint and Akamai to discuss how the two companies worked together to address the 2016 Mirai DDoS attacks.
The fall 2016 Mirai botnet compromised more than 300,000 IoT devices as part of a massive DDoS attack. After the crippling attack, Flashpoint and Akamai worked together with law enforcement to help bring those behind the botnet attack to justice.
Threatpost’s Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint’s director of security research Allison Nixon, and Akamai’s senior engineer Chad Seaman, to discuss how the two worked together and what the industry has learned in the wake of the Mirai attacks.
The “People Nearby” feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user’s precise location, a researcher said.
Ransomware response demands a whole-of-business plan before the next attack, according to our roundtable of experts.
Investigation reveals device sector is problem plagued when it comes to security bugs.
Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics. Content strives to be of the highest quality, objective and non-commercial.
Sponsored Content is paid for by an advertiser. Sponsored content is written and edited by members of our sponsor community. This content creates an opportunity for a sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to the Threatpost audience. The Threatpost editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of Sponsored Content.
