Tag archives: mitigation

Cloudbleed Bug Impacts Large Swath of the Internet

By on March 7, 2017 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Data breach

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Cloudflare, which operates a widely used web content delivery network, announced a security bug on February 23 that caused sensitive data to leak from its customers’ websites. The exact number of websites potentially affected is unknown but some estimates place the total in excess of 5 million. The Google security researcher who discovered the bug – … Continue reading

Legal Implications of DDoS Attacks and the Internet of Things (IoT)

By on December 5, 2016 Posted in Cybercrime

Several significant distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks have taken place in the last few weeks, including a major event involving a domain name service provider (Dyn), which caused outages and slowness for many popular sites like Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter. This significant attack came on the heels of two major DDoS attacks against … Continue reading