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6 Feb 2017, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
They also have targeted businesses that prepare income tax returns, both through hacking and phishing.In an important security report from Brian Krebs, this W-2 information, which could include YOUR W-2 information, is now showing up on what he calls cybercriminal shops. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 2:00 am by Sam Ransbotham
After the (at the time) record distributed denial of service attack, Brian Krebs analyzes “Who Makes the IoT Things Under Attack? [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 7:00 am by Jordan Brunner
Paul flagged a case study of the operations of the Active Measures Working Group the U.S. started to counteract Soviet disinformation, and he also flagged Brian Krebs’ report on who created the Mirai botnet. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 11:08 am by Paul Rosenzweig
  Now, Brian Krebs, one of the victims, thinks he knows the answer. [read post]
As Brian Krebs reported in the aftermath of the attack on his site, “Martin McKeay, Akamai’s senior security advocate, said the largest attack the company had seen previously clocked in earlier this year at 363 [Gigabits of traffic per second (“Gbps”)],” but the attack on KrebsonSecurity exceeded 600 Gbps and the attack on OVH exceeded 1 Terabit per second or 1,000 Gbps. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 8:56 am by Randal L. Gainer
The DDoS attack on Dyn was reportedly similar to the 620 gigabits of traffic per second that targeted Brian Krebs’ website, KrebsOnSecurity, on Sept. 20, 2016. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 8:56 am by Randal L. Gainer
The DDoS attack on Dyn was reportedly similar to the 620 gigabits of traffic per second that targeted Brian Krebs’ website, KrebsOnSecurity, on Sept. 20, 2016. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 11:44 am by Stewart Baker
Michael and I also touch on an Akamai report confirming that the Internet of things isn’t exclusively used to launch DDOS attacks on Brian Krebs; sometimes it’s used to launch mass credential theft attacks as well. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 2:11 pm by Brian Kennedy
For example, in mid-September, several thousand devices—home routers, Internet-connected video cameras, and digital video recorders—were used to create a “botnet” that collectively pounded the security researcher Brian Krebs’ website with 620 gigabits of data per second. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 3:39 pm by Dan Goodin
KrebsOnSecurity's Brian Krebs reported on Saturday that the source code for "Mirai," a network of Internet-connected cameras and other "Internet of things" devices, was published on Friday. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 8:48 am by Stewart Baker
  Speaking of records, Brian Krebs, a podcast alum, experienced his own unenviable record:  victim of world’s biggest DDOS attack, fueled by the Internet of Things. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 1:58 pm by Dan Goodin
Enlarge (credit: David Brandt) For the better part of a day, KrebsOnSecurity, arguably the world's most intrepid source of security news, has been silenced, presumably by a handful of individuals who didn't like a recent series of exposés reporter Brian Krebs wrote. [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 11:33 am by Nicholas Weaver
If you don’t already, all Lawfare readers interested in cybersecurity issues should be regularly reading  Krebs on Security, a blog run by the estimable researcher Brian Krebs. [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 10:38 am by Dan Goodin
Oracle representatives have told reporter Brian Krebs that company engineers "detected and addressed malicious code in certain legacy MICROS systems" and that the service has asked all customers to reset their passwords for the MICROS online support site. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 12:25 pm by David Kravets
(credit: krebonsecurity.com) A 22-year-old hacker has been handed a two-year prison sentence for his role in doxing and swatting politicians, celebrities, prosecutors, the first lady, and security journalist Brian Krebs. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 12:22 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Cody M. Poplin
Parting Shot: A “glut of stolen data” is driving down the value of cybercriminal activities, says Brian Krebs, but even so, “it’s a good time to be a cybercriminal,” writes Josephine Wolff in an exploration of the new economics of cybercrime for the Atlantic. [read post]
4 Mar 2016, 11:53 am by HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency, and Brian Krebs, investigative reporter and cybersecurity expert. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 1:00 pm by Stewart Baker
Well, Norse imploded last week, after a laid-off employee’s published criticisms were amplified by security blogger Brian Krebs. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 10:37 am by Rebecca Tushnet
., anti-spam laws: Here I learned of research by Brian Krebs asking why anyonebuys from spammers. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 8:22 am by Dan Goodin
(credit: KrebsOnSecurity) A Ukrainian hacker accused of trying to frame security reporter Brian Krebs for heroin possession has pleaded guilty to credit card fraud and illegally accessing more than 13,000 computers. [read post]