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Attackers are targeting financial services organizations with brute force, credential stuffing, and DoS attacks. See how you can mitigate the risks.

New Mirai variant references the COVID-19 pandemic with a filename change and two targets: Huawei routers and TeamSpeak.

Ransomware is alive and kicking, and local governments seem to be getting the worst of it. How can organisations best secure themselves against this threat? F5 Labs' David Warburton discusses the issue with ITProPortal.

Learn about cross-site scripting (XSS), how it works, and how to protect against it.

Over 700 survey respondents from different generations shared their views about the IoT and the tradeoffs between privacy and convenience.

The rush to deploy remote access solutions can bring unexpected risks to light.

The Canadian threat landscape was characterized by a large amount of attack traffic from in-county systems, which can be the most difficult to filter.

The Australian threat landscape closely mirrored the threats we observed in Asia, with an added focus on NetBIOS port 139.

The attack landscape targeting US systems was characterized by a large amount of traffic directed at web applications and web app databases.

Companies doing business with the Department of Defense must soon be audit certified under something called the CMMC. The depth required will depend on the amount of Controlled Unclassified Information a company handles.

Talent scarcity is making it hard to fill headcount. But what do you do in the meantime? F5's Gail Coury writes for Disruptive.Asia, discussing what types of managed services make sense to give you a hand with security issues.

The Russian threat landscape is unique from other regions of the world in that it had the most unique attacking IP addresses.

European systems saw large volumes of attack traffic coming from in-region IP addresses attempting to conduct abusive port scanning.

Attackers used two top ASNs to broadly distribute IP addresses in an attempt to camouflage attack traffic targeting Middle Eastern systems.

Asian systems saw a large amount of SMB attack traffic during this time period, mainly driven from in-region IP addresses.

Tuyul bot targets vulnerable PHPUnit systems to install an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot.

Expect COVID-19 (Coronavirus) to touch your organization soon, if it hasn’t already. You need to be ready for shortages, slowdowns, absent personnel, and a high percentage of concurrent remote access workers.

The Summary of the 2019 F5 Labs TLS Telemetry Report expands the scope of our research to bring deeper insights into encryption on the web, including ciphers, SSL/TLS versions, and digital certificates.

We're all familiar with the problem of talent scarcity in cybersecurity. Shape Security's Jared Baker writes for Human Resources Director, discussing how veterans are often a perfect fit - if you seek them out.

How the world responds to Coronavirus can teach cyber-defenders a lot about risk communication, incident response, and how controls work… or don’t.