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Financial services are a well-known target of attack, based on a range of motivations. F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, discussing financial institutions' unique security environment , and how the need to understand the entire organism is critical.

Using a few free web sources and a spreadsheet, security teams can use machine learning to quickly predict which critical vulnerabilities will be exploited.

An F5 Labs survey of Gen Z-ers revealed they are not much more security savvy online than Millennials.

We all know we need to use security controls to protect our networks, but that's easier said than done. F5 Labs' Ray Pompon writes for ISBuzz News, discussing how to prioritize your security control options and how to actually get some of them done.

Three years of data shows DDoS attacks against service providers are growing while brute force and other authentication attacks are slowly waning.

Threat campaign activity in December 2019 doubled from the previous month.

Online retail apps are a perfect storm of interconnecting infrastructure and insertion points. F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, discussing the wide range of risks that can threaten your apps, and how the need to understand the entire organism is critical.

Knowing the trends in cyber security is key to protecting yourself. F5 Labs' Raymond Pompon writes for Teiss, discussing the three trends that will drive challenges and opportunities in 2020.

Although ransomware has declined in media coverage, it appears to be gaining in strategic precision. F5 Labs' David Warburton writes for IDG Connect, discussing concrete steps for public sector organizations to defend themselves effectively.

F5 Labs recommends security controls based on the top 2019 cyber threats. Learn how these recommendations tie into the best practices to prevent data breaches.

The holiday shopping season is a bonanza for both shoppers and attackers. F5 Labs' David Warburton writes for ITProPortal, discussing the most commonly seen seasonal threats and how annual trends are shifting.

Now that we’ve explored cloud security failures, we’re going to explain defensive strategies laid out by deployment model.

Your app security still relies on routers that can reach end-of-life. F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, discussing the need to think of your entire stack when protecting your apps.

A deep dive into a wide variety of cloud-related security data breaches, both maliciously caused and accidental.

IoT botnet Gafgyt targets popular routers through RCE vulnerabilities, and even removes competing malware.

New campaign activity for remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities disclosed this year picked up in the month of November.

The same countries that attacked the rest of the world also attacked systems in Russia, but from different networks and IP addresses.

Attackers targeted applications and conducted credential stuffing attacks against systems in Asia during the fall of 2019.

A Mirai variant named Echobot appeared mid-2019. Echobot has been seen expanding its arsenal to 71 exploits, targeting SCADA systems and IoT devices.

Europe saw more in-region attack traffic—the hardest kind to filter out—than any of the 8 regions of the world we analyzed.