Bicycle theft is a growing problem across the UK, and in recognition of this, the Asset and Property Marking Section of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has launched a helpful guide for cyclists to emphasise the importance of marking their bikes with forensic solutions in order to deter thieves, Vigilance can report.
A new military command, Joint Forces Command (JFC) established to improve the way MOD prepares for and conducts operations reached full operating capability yesterday (2 April 13). According to a source at the MoD the significant milestone means that the JFC is now fully-manned and able to fulfil the entire range of its responsibilities in support of Defence’s objectives for current operations, future contingencies and for the longer term.
Lessons learnt from SpamHaus DDoS attack
Vigilance can report that last week, as part of the Spammer-Anti-Spammer wars, an attack on Spamhaus was created using a DNS amplification attack on highly rated DNS servers, the attack used Botnets to send an initial reflection request to the DNS Servers, which then generated the actual traffic. Today, although we are not sure if the same vector of attack was used again, the attack was able to draw enough web traffic to Spamhaus to reach a reported peak of 300Gbps of DDoS – a respectable number indeed. It is clear that proper DNS Server monitoring and configuration should have deflected the attack at an early stage. The DNS Attack vector showed again the effectiveness of using servers as initial attack vectors rather than a user-based botnet.
The recent DDOS attacks aimed at Spamhaus hammer home three very important points that we must learn in our new digital society: 1.) How dependent we are on digital communication, 2.) How interdependent our networks have become, and 3). How drastic the consequences are when basic “blocking and tackling” measures are not taken.
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