Online spooks hide ‘numbers station’ control node in plain sight Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…
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Chinese cyber-spies hid botnet controls in MS TechNet comments
Home-baked encryption followed the wrong recipe Yet another proprietary implementation of a popular protocol has turned up unexpected vulnerabilities, with SAP’s data compression software open to remote code execution and denial-of-service exploits.…
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SAP crypto offers customers choice of remote code execution or denial of service
Resulting mess will be hellishly difficult to clear up, say researchers Hackers have established “self-sustaining” botnets of poorly secured routers, according to DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula.…
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Home routers co-opted into self-sustaining DDoS botnet
Nefarious pervert hacks parlour cameras for heavy petting pwnage The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has nabbed a Canadian woman believed to have originated a botnet which she used to recreationally terrorise victims.…
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Mounties nab Canadian woman, 27, in webcam hack shenanigans bust
As the tide of DDoS attacks continues to expand, the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the influx of network connected devices, such as webcams and routers, are leading to the growth of Simple …
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93% of DDoS attacks last 30 minutes
Apple patches OOB boob to stop API noobs being duped Kenton Varda has found a ‘weird’ kernel bug used in Apple gear that could result in trivial denial of service by remote attackers.…
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iOS, OS X apps sent into infinite dizzy DoS by this one weird kernel bug
Mismatched clocks allow poison packets to prevent synching, and sink you Red Hat security chap Miroslav Lichvar has revealed two vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) that allow attackers to get clients to execute unauthenticated packets.…
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Denial of service attacks pour through rift in Network Time Protocol
Code repository warns of ‘evolving’ attacks With the GitHub distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack nearing its fifth day of bombardment, the code-sharing upstart said it is holding up well under fire.…
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Day FOUR of the GitHub web assault: Activists point fingers at ‘China’s global censorship’
Servers up and down during 24-hour-long DDoS GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…
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The injected JavaScript used to smash anti-Great Firewall of China GitHub projects offline
Users unwittingly add to chronic traffic congestion GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…
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GitHub jammed by injected JavaScript, servers whacked by DDoS