Strategy towards more IT security: the road paved with misconceptions

Albert Zenkoff
2014-07-23
Society, component, conference, future, government, ignorance, internet, IT, management, manufacturing, misconception, network, restrict, secure, security, software, strategy, system

The strategy towards more IT security in the “Internet of Things” is based a little more than entirely on misconceptions and ignorance. The policy makers simply reinforce each other’s “ideas” without any awareness of where the road they follow is leading. As I listened on in the K-ITS 2014 conference, it became painfully obvious that ...

Mitigating Denial of Service attacks to WordPress xmlrpc

Albert Zenkoff
2014-07-14
Technology, attack, botnet, DDOS, denial of service, htaccess, mitigation, redirect, server, user agent

I have attracted attention, apparently. My website is under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack by a botnet for the last week. I am flattered, of course, but I could live without a DDOS, frankly. The requests go to xmlrpc.php every second or two from a different IP address from around the world: POST ...

Strategy towards more IT security: the road paved with misconceptions