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Zscaler Research Finds 60% Increase in AI-Driven Phishing Attacks

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Vishing (voice phishing) and deepfake phishing attacks are on the rise as attackers leverage generative AI to amplify social engineering tactics.

Key Points: 
  • Vishing (voice phishing) and deepfake phishing attacks are on the rise as attackers leverage generative AI to amplify social engineering tactics.
  • The finance and insurance industry faced 27.8% of overall phishing attacks, the highest concentration among industries and a staggering 393% year-over-year increase.
  • The data revealed a year-over-year increase of nearly 60% in global phishing attacks, fueled in part by the proliferation of generative AI-driven schemes such as voice phishing (vishing) and deepfake phishing.
  • Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzed 2 billion blocked phishing transactions between January and December 2023, exploring various aspects including top phishing attacks, targeted countries, hosting countries for phishing content, distribution of company types based on server IP addresses, and the top referrers linked to these phishing attacks.

Lightpath Launches Enhanced DDoS Protection Solutions

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

NEW YORK, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced the launch of LP DDoS Shield, its next-generation network safeguard against a growing list of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack types.     

Key Points: 
  • At a time when DDoS attacks are increasing in size, scale, and sophistication, enhanced DDoS protection is fundamental.
  • Lightpath's LP DDoS Shield utilizes advanced DDoS detection and mitigation technology from Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions.
  • "At a time when DDoS attacks are increasing in size, scale, and sophistication, enhanced DDoS protection is fundamental to our commitment to providing customers with a solution for secure, reliable, and future-ready connectivity," stated Tim Haverkate, SVP of Commercial Operations for Lightpath.
  • When customers get their DDoS protection from Lightpath as their Internet Service Provider, they gain the timeliest, integrated detection and mitigation without extra network hops.

Radware to Provide Advanced DDoS Protection for Asian Tax Authority

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

MAHWAH, N.J., April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radware ® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced an Asian tax authority will use Radware’s advanced Defense Pro® X DDoS protection to increase defenses surrounding its technology infrastructure.

Key Points: 
  • MAHWAH, N.J., April 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Radware ® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced an Asian tax authority will use Radware’s advanced Defense Pro® X DDoS protection to increase defenses surrounding its technology infrastructure.
  • Chartered to protect its country’s economic interests, the tax authority’s responsibilities include administering tax policy, managing and securing associated communications and information technologies, and maximizing operational efficiencies.
  • Designed to accurately detect and block malicious traffic and offer uninterrupted availability, DefensePro X provides automated, adaptive DDoS protection from fast-moving, high-volume, encrypted or zero-day threats.
  • Radware has received numerous awards for its DDoS mitigation, application and API protection , web application firewall , and bot detection and management solutions.

CyberRatings.org Announces Test Results for Cloud Network Firewall

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberRatings.org (CyberRatings), the non-profit entity dedicated to providing confidence in cybersecurity products and services through its research and testing programs, has completed an independent test of eleven market leading Cloud Network Firewall vendors. Six products were Recommended, one product received a Neutral rating, and four received a Caution rating.

Key Points: 
  • Cloud network firewalls are considered to be the first line of defense when deployed in public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the public cloud service chosen to run the test.
  • "We have been testing firewalls for years, and more recently cloud network firewalls," said Vikram Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings.org.
  • As part of the cloud firewall test, CyberRatings also checked to see if products were secure by default.

Radware Expands DDoS Protection for Leading Portuguese Telecom Provider NOS

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Leading 5G provider in Portugal, NOS has 5.9 million mobile phone customers, 1.6 million television customers and over 5.3 million households covered with FTTH.

Key Points: 
  • Leading 5G provider in Portugal, NOS has 5.9 million mobile phone customers, 1.6 million television customers and over 5.3 million households covered with FTTH.
  • As part of the agreement, NOS increased its investment in Radware’s DefensePro® DDoS Protection and Emergency Response Team services.
  • Radware closed the deal in conjunction with its OEM partnership with Check Point Software Technologies , a leading AI-powered, cloud-delivered cyber security platform provider.
  • “Not only does Radware offer superior DDoS protection, but Radware’s customer support has been key at increasing the safety of NOS’ infrastructure and its customers,” said Paulo Ribeiro, director of fixed network engineering at NOS.

TeraBox Unveils New Logo, Introduces Brand Mascot Terara, and Celebrates Prestigious Awards

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Monday, February 5, 2024

Since its global launch in May 2020, TeraBox has established itself as a reliable and secure cloud storage provider.

Key Points: 
  • Since its global launch in May 2020, TeraBox has established itself as a reliable and secure cloud storage provider.
  • TeraBox is accredited with ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, and ISO 27018 certifications, ensuring secure transmission and storage of information.
  • Reflecting on the past year, TeraBox has garnered international recognition, receiving acclaim, awards, and prestigious design accolades.
  • For 2024, the company also welcomes Terara, the new brand mascot of TeraBox.

TeraBox Unveils New Logo, Introduces Brand Mascot Terara, and Celebrates Prestigious Awards

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Monday, February 5, 2024

Since its global launch in May 2020, TeraBox has established itself as a reliable and secure cloud storage provider.

Key Points: 
  • Since its global launch in May 2020, TeraBox has established itself as a reliable and secure cloud storage provider.
  • TeraBox is accredited with ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, and ISO 27018 certifications, ensuring secure transmission and storage of information.
  • Reflecting on the past year, TeraBox has garnered international recognition, receiving acclaim, awards, and prestigious design accolades.
  • For 2024, the company also welcomes Terara, the new brand mascot of TeraBox.

CyberRatings.org Announces "Spot Check" for Security Service Edge (SSE)

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberRatings.org (CyberRatings), the non-profit entity dedicated to providing confidence in cybersecurity products and services through its research and testing programs, has launched "Spot Check," a verification of Security Service Edge (SSE) Threat Protection to help enterprises answer the question, "How do you know?"

Key Points: 
  • "Spot Check" verifies Security Service Edge (SSE) Threat Protection to help answer the question, "How do you know?"
  • Cloud delivered security such as SSE provides users with seamless secure access to applications and data regardless of location.
  • "How do they know that their SSE is defending against the latest threats, or their policy modifications aren't adversely impacting their security?"
  • Blog: What is Security Service Edge ?

Radware to Deliver Advanced DDoS Protection for Data Center Infrastructure of Leading European Telecom

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Ranking among its country’s top four largest telecoms based on revenue, the carrier will utilize Radware’s behavioral-based DDoS protection to strengthen the network security for its data center infrastructure and customers.

Key Points: 
  • Ranking among its country’s top four largest telecoms based on revenue, the carrier will utilize Radware’s behavioral-based DDoS protection to strengthen the network security for its data center infrastructure and customers.
  • To increase its DDoS defenses against new threat vectors and expand its security portfolio, the carrier replaced its existing DDoS mitigation solution with Radware’s DefensePro® X DDoS Protection platform and Cyber Controller .
  • To oversee the complete DDoS protection lifecycle and speed time to mitigation, DefensePro X works with the Radware Cyber Controller.
  • Radware has received numerous awards for its DDoS mitigation, application and API protection , web application firewall , and bot detection and management solutions.

CHELSIO DELIVERS T6 UNIFIED WIRE LINE OF PROTOCOL OFFLOAD ADAPTERS BASED ON OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT (OCP) 3.0 DESIGNS

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance (10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb) Ethernet adapters for storage, networking, virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments today announced the availability of the new Terminator 6 (T6) 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet (GbE) network adapters based on the sixth generation of its hyper‐virtualized Unified Wire ASIC architecture based on the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 specifications.

Key Points: 
  • It is characterized by data center architectures focused on improving total cost of ownership, energy efficiency, and reducing complexity in the scalable computing space.
  • The T6-powered OCP 3.0 adapters are among the industry's highest-performance Ethernet interfaces, scaling to deliver 100Gbps wire speed bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and high message processing capacity.
  • "Chelsio has opened the door to unified network protocol offload performance enabling OCP 3 environments", said Greg Schulz of Server StorageIO™.
  • "With the availability of the new Chelsio T6 network adapters with offload, organizations looking to leverage OCP 3 specs have an open path to scalable, flexible performance."