A harsh lesson, now stand in corridor for four hours The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.…
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DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform
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‘Millions’ of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack
Vulnerability may allow ne’er-do-wells to access the 1990s SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Stefan Viehbock says potentially millions of routers and internet of things devices using KCodes NetUSB could be exposed to remote hijacking or denial of service attacks.…
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‘Millions’ of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack
Denial of service attacks pour through rift in Network Time Protocol
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
Day FOUR of the GitHub web assault: Activists point fingers at ‘China’s global censorship’
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’
Massive DDoS racks up $30,000-a-day Amazon bill for China activists
Site flooded with 2.6 billion requests an hour Chinese activist site Greatfire.org which masks censored traffic into the country is under a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is racking up $30,000 a day in server costs.…
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Massive DDoS racks up $30,000-a-day Amazon bill for China activists
2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull
Crims also move to Silverlight, according to Cisco Cisco’s annual report on the state of global cybersecurity claims spammers just won’t die and are using new tactics to avoid detection by filters; malware programmers are abandoning exploiting Java; and there’s a possible silver cloud in the Sony Pictures hacking storm.…
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2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull
‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
NotCompatible A newly discovered variant of NotCompatible is establishing what has been called the most advanced mobile botnet yet created.…
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‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
DDoS attacks continue to fall in size and frequency
The newest up-and-coming countries of origin for DDoS attacks will be Vietnam, India and Indonesia in 2015, according to Black Lotus. While these countries don’t have the necessary bandwidth to lau…
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DDoS attacks continue to fall in size and frequency
Week in review: IE 0-day patched, Windows XP gets unexpected update, and tips on how to learn information security
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: XSS bug in popular Chinese site exploited to launch DDoS attack DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula has put a st…
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Week in review: IE 0-day patched, Windows XP gets unexpected update, and tips on how to learn information security
Spike in DDoS attack size driven by NTP misuse
The beginning of 2014 saw 1.5 times the number of attacks over 20GB/sec, compared to the rest of 2013, according to new stats released by Arbor Networks today. At the Infosecurity Europe 2014, t…
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Spike in DDoS attack size driven by NTP misuse