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Yahoo
18-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Kill this fish immediately if you find it in Kansas
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Biologists are urging anglers and others to keep an eye out for an invasive fish that doesn't need water to survive. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) is working to spread the word among the state's anglers about an invasive species that has been expanding in recent years to new areas across the nation. Native to Asia, northern snakehead are making themselves at home in different parts of the U.S., according to the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). While not here currently, state conservationists and biologists are concerned that snakeheads may wriggle their way into Kansas at some point, creating big problems for native wildlife. The fish are hardy, able to move about on land for up to four days by breathing air to travel into new bodies of water, according to the FWS. 'Introduction of northern snakehead into Kansas has been a concern for many years and they have been featured many times in our aquatic invasive species outreach materials, including brochures and on our website,' said KDWP Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator Chris Steffen. 'We even have some replica mounts that are displayed at various events such as the state fair.' Kansas hunting and fishing license bill fails to pass after veto, what that means Steffen said that states with populations of snakeheads, like Missouri, usually have strict regulations that require people who find the fish to take action. He said anglers are encouraged to decapitate or eviscerate snakeheads if they want to keep them due to their ability to survive outside of the water. 'Northern snakehead have never been found in Kansas,' Steffen said. 'They are on our prohibited species list (KAR 115-18-10) and are illegal to possess live in Kansas.' Biologists to release more alligator snapping turtles in Kansas The FWS has several recommendations for people who come across a snakehead in the wild to help prevent its spread. These include the following: Never release the fish or toss it onto the bank to die as they can survive outside the water. Kill the fish by putting it on ice or freezing it. Take a photo of the fish and contact your state conservation agency or the FWS at 703-358-2148 as soon as possible. Keep track of the size, number and location of where you caught the fish. Steffen said the KDWP launched the Protect Kansas Waters campaign in 2024 to raise awareness among the state's anglers to help stop the spread of invasive species like the snakehead. This includes following practices like: Cleaning anything that comes into contact with the water and removing any mud, plants or other animals before leaving the area. Draining all water from engines, live wells, bilges, bait buckets, etc. Disposing of bait responsibly is also encouraged along with not moving live fish between bodies of water. Drying equipment for at least five days or washing it with 120-degree water before using it in another body of water. Moving this tree in Kansas could get you in trouble starting in 2027, what to know People who come across a snakehead, or other invasive species in Kansas like black carp and marbled crayfish, are encouraged to call the KDWP's Research and Survey Office at 620-342-0658. Learn more about the invasive species threatening Kansas' outdoor spaces by clicking here. For more Kansas Outdoors, click here. Keep up with the latest breaking news in northeast Kansas by downloading our mobile app and by signing up for our news email alerts. Sign up for our Storm Track Weather app by clicking here. Follow Matthew Self on X (Twitter): Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Channel Post MEA
27-02-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
NETSCOUT Unveils New Enhanced Adaptive DDoS Protection Solution
NETSCOUT announced it enhanced its Arbor Threat Mitigation System (TMS) Adaptive DDoS Protection solution with additional AI/ML functionality to better detect and block malicious traffic. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting critical IT infrastructure and services have increased by 55% over the last four years. A perfect storm of AI-driven automation, evolving DDoS-for-hire services, augmented IoT botnets, and geopolitical conflicts have changed the threat landscape with more frequent, sophisticated attacks having the potential to do more damage more rapidly. To combat these attacks, organizations, enterprises and service providers require AI/ML-enabled solutions that can continually adapt to threats, using proactive, intelligence-driven security strategies to protect their networks. 'With AI-driven attacks, ransomware, and nation-state threats impacting corporate governance, financial performance, and customer trust, corporate boards expect their IT teams to be proactive in adapting to emerging threats like DDoS,' said Chris Steffen, Vice President of Research – Information Security, Enterprise Management Associates. 'Implementing solutions that can adapt to threats helps minimize that risk.' NETSCOUT utilizes a hybrid AI/ML strategy that combines AI/ML running at scale in the cloud, with supervision, to analyze data collected from an unprecedented 550 Tbps of Internet traffic (almost half of all Internet traffic), along with AI/ML running in our software solutions to enable automated protection from these attacks. This provides a 'best of both worlds' approach – the computational scale of the cloud allows for large-scale analysis of threat data with supervision to ensure accuracy while AI/ML running in our software solutions enables them to leverage that pre-analyzed intelligence to make fast, accurate, automated decisions about what to detect and block. The company's cloud-based AI/ML drives the creation of the ATLAS Intelligence Feed , which delivers unique capabilities in its Adaptive DDoS Protection solutions, arming them with the latest DDoS attack intelligence. The continuous analysis, which is updated multiple times per day, provides insight into the source IP addresses of devices actively conducting DDoS attacks on the internet, novel attack vectors, DDoS attack targets, and other intelligence. This enables Adaptive DDoS Protection to quickly and accurately detect even small direct-path attacks from sampled flow data and send the traffic to TMS for automated blocking. The latest AI/ML-derived ATLAS Intelligence Feed iteration has been augmented with enhanced Geo-IP location functionality that maps IP addresses to geographic locations, enabling faster and more precise identification and blocking of malicious traffic. In addition, the ATLAS Intelligence Feed now includes NETSCOUT's ATLAS tracking of active DDoS campaigns, enabling Adaptive DDoS Protection to automatically detect and block attacks from over 65 known DDoS threat actors carrying out active attack campaigns against a range of targets, including NoName057 and RipperSec. AI/ML technology has also been adopted as part of the Adaptive DDoS Protection solution. New in the latest release is AI/ML-powered source host misuse detection, which enables network operators to track misbehaving subscribers, infected hosts, compromised IoT devices, and other internal attack sources. This new capability makes it easier to detect and block outbound DDoS attacks that can impact service and infrastructure performance and availability as edge connectivity speeds increase. New TMS Source Mitigations enable network operators to redirect and surgically protect against threat activity from specific sources that may be targeting the entire network without requiring fully inline solutions on all network traffic. Service Provider Benefits With updates to NETSCOUT's Adaptive DDoS Protection solution, service providers can better protect their critical infrastructures and the services they provide to their customers. Other key advantages include enhanced availability, reduced downtime costs, less aggravation, and new revenue-generating opportunities. 'With more sophisticated and frequent DDoS attacks, the risks have never been greater,' said Scott Nichols, Chief Commercial Officer at Arelion. 'Through our partnership with NETSCOUT, we're able to deliver industry-leading Adaptive DDoS protection to ensure the best experience possible for our customers.' 0 0
