INDUSTRY WATCH
THE DUAL OPERATION
MODE OF MIFARE PLUS
EV1 ENABLES HOTELS
TO UPDATE THEIR
INFRASTRUCTURE STEP-
BY-STEP, DEPENDING ON
THEIR NEEDS.
T
he need to continuously future-
proof against tomorrow’s ongoing
security needs is evident in a
recent report by Akamai Technologies.
Cybersecurity defenders are facing
increasing threats from organisations in
the form of bot-based credential abuse,
targeting the hospitality industry and
advanced distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks according to the Summer
2018 State of the Internet / Security:
Web Attack Report released by Akamai.
Analysis of current cyberattack trends
from November 2017 through to
April 2018 reveals the importance of
maintaining agility not only by security
teams, but also by developers, network
operators and service providers, in order
to mitigate new threats.
Hospitality industry vs bots –
analysis of fraud attempts
The use of bots to abuse stolen credentials
continues to be a major risk for Internet-
driven businesses, but data from the
report reveals that the hospitality industry
experiences many more credential abuse
attacks than other sectors.
Akamai researchers analysed nearly
112 billion bot requests and 3.9 billion
malicious login attempts that targeted
sites in this industry, including airlines,
cruise lines and hotels among others.
Nearly 40% of the traffic seen across
hotel and travel sites is classified as
www.intelligentcio.com
Martin McKeay, Senior Security
Advocate, Akamai
‘impersonators of known browsers’,
which is a known vector for fraud.
“The attractiveness of the hospitality
industry appears to have made it a
significant target for hackers to carry out
bot-driven fraud,” said Martin McKeay,
Senior Security Advocate, Akamai and
Senior Editor of the State of the Internet/
Security Report.
The rise of advanced DDoS
attacks highlights need for
security adaptability
While simple volumetric DDoS attacks
continued to be the most common
method used to attack organisations
globally, other techniques have continued
to appear. For this edition of the report,
Akamai researchers identified and tracked
advanced techniques that show the
influence of intelligent, adaptive enemies
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