Security

Analytics Toolkit: Future-Proofing Against Google Analytics Spam

Submitted by Sam Moore on Mon, 12/05/2016 - 21:26

If you're seeing this in your Analytics reports,

“Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!”

and are sufficiently technical to do something about it, here's a great article on how to proceed.

http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2016/future-proofing-your-ga-vs-google-analytics-spam/

Krebs: IoT malware knocks out nearly a milllion Deutsche Telekom routers

Submitted by Sam Moore on Wed, 11/30/2016 - 18:46

 

According to BadCyber.com, which first blogged about the emergence of the new Mirai variant, part of the problem is that Deutsche Telekom does not appear to have followed the best practice of blocking the rest of the world from remotely managing these devices as well.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/new-mirai-worm-knocks-900k-germans-offline/