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The Department of Homeland Security said it has launched a multi-faceted attempt to defend the nation's computer networks from hackers in light of witnessing a dramatic surge recently with respect to the number of crippling cyberattacks being waged against internet infrastructure.
The DHS's Science and Technology Directorate on Thursday said its cybersecurity division has set its sights on safeguarding the internet against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, an elementary but effective tactic used by hackers to overload a network with illegitimate web traffic to render it useless.
An unprecedented DDoS attack waged in October 2016 targeted Dyn, an internet performance company that runs a popular domain name system that effectively functions as an online directory. Millions of computer users across North American and Europe suffered internet disruptions due to the assault, the likes of which was waged by infecting millions of common, "Internet of Things" start devices with a strain of malicious software known as Mirai.
[...] To stifle future attacks, DHS said it's Distributed Denial of Service Defense (DDoSD) project has spearheaded a three-pronged approach intended to give network infrastructure defenders an advantage over malicious actors.
"The project's two primary focuses are on increasing deployment of best practices to slow attack scale growth and defending networks against a one Tbps attack through development of collaboration tools that can be used by medium-size organizations," DHS said in a statement.
A third component aims to address other types of DDoS attacks, specifically including assaults that could be used to disrupt access to 911 and other emergency services.
Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/18/homeland-security-sets-sights-curbing-wide-scale-d/
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 24 2017, @12:48PM
Yes, yes, three times yes to this one!!!
Because everybody knows regulation works as magic, you write it on paper and suddenly you are protected as by a spell against everything that reality throws at you.
Mark my words, some of these days the congresscritters will repeal the second law of thermodynamics and we'll finally get unlimited energy for nothing. If only you vote the correct candidates into the office, not the ones sold to fossil fuel cabal.
(I saw what you did here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @03:51PM
Because everybody knows regulation works as magic
No, like all contracts, it's not magic (despite what Ancaps would like to believe). Allow me to elaborate.
The way this contract works is that it has an implicit clause that the deal may be altered further at any time. Unfortunately this one is a special contact, the one you can't refuse we call the law. Now, if you break the contract, then you'll be in trouble with the contract enforcer. It just so happens that the contract enforcer on this one is the most powerful warlord in the world, so if you insist on breaking the contract, you'll be in a world of shit.
Nobody wants to be in a world of shit, so they tend to follow the regulations when the deal is altered.
Fortunately, the warlord in charge of contract enforcement is a rule lawyer (probably used to play Magic: The Gathering back in the day), so you can usually stretch the wording of the altered deal, sometimes to the breaking point. Other warlords like Duterte aren't rule lawyers, but as one may guess, that alternative turns out to be worse.
Mark my words, some of these days the congresscritters will repeal the second law of thermodynamics and we'll finally get unlimited energy for nothing.
This only works in Indiana. Hoosiers are good, simple folks.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Dunbal on Friday February 24 2017, @09:39PM
Because everybody knows regulation works as magic, you write it on paper and suddenly you are protected as by a spell against everything that reality throws at you.
Confirming that cars are just as "safe" today as 40 years ago. Oh wait, you think that all the safety features in cars have been added because of "market forces" lol.