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Cato Research Decrypts the News Behind February Security Events

CATO Networks

Windows SMBv3 Denial of Service Zero-Day One issue that was not covered widely in the news is a zero-day attack discovered in Microsoft Windows SMBv3, the popular enterprise protocol for file and printer sharing. The Tweet about the attack pointed to a proof of concept (POC) published on GitHub.

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Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review

CloudFaire

traffic is using post-quantum encryption. traffic is using post-quantum encryption. Growth trends in post-quantum encrypted TLS 1.3 HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the core protocol that the web relies upon. HTTP/3 also provides encryption by default, which mitigates the risk of attacks. using HTTP/3.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

DNSSEC) could have prevented this attack, the primary protection in place was the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, which requires all connections to be encrypted. When TLS establishes an encrypted connection, the server must present a valid certificate that vouches for the server’s identity.