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Un excelente artículo de tiempo atrás redactado por Bruce Schneier

Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.

First, a little background. If you want to take a network off the Internet, the easiest way to do it is with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). Like the name says, this is an attack designed to prevent legitimate users from getting to the site. There are subtleties, but basically it means blasting so much data at the site that it’s overwhelmed. These attacks are not new: hackers do this to sites they don’t like, and criminals have done it as a method of extortion. There is an entire industry, with an arsenal of technologies, devoted to DDoS defense. But largely it’s a matter of bandwidth. If the attacker has a bigger fire hose of data than the defender has, the attacker wins. (más…)

El mercado de Internet de las Cosas (IoT) se está expandiendo rápidamente, y el número de vulnerabilidades sin parchear que puede encontrarse en dispositivos integrados en este segmento de mercado parece estar creciendo a un ritmo simila, según demostraron en DefCamp, la conferencia celebrada en Bucarest, Rumania la semana pasada.

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