Reddit, Github, Airbnb and pals affected A denial of service attack against managed DNS provider Dyn restricted access to many US-based websites on Friday.…
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Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan
SOHOpeless CCTVs and video recorders It shouldn’t surprise anyone that closed circuit television (CCTV) rigs are becoming the world’s favourite botnet hosts: pretty much any time a security researcher looks at a camera, it turns out to be a buggy mess.…
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Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan
SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets
Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…
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Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet
Hackforums leak Malicious code used to press-gang IoT connected devices into a botnet was leaked online over the weekend.…
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No wonder we’re being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?
Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Internet of Things devices are starting to pose a real threat to security for the sensible part of the web, Akamai’s chief security officer Andy Ellis has told The Register .…
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152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
Hacked low-powered cameras and internet-of-things things The world’s largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been clocked from the same network of 152,463 compromised low-powered cameras and internet-of-things devices which punted a media outlet off the internet.…
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152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia’s census
Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM’s plan, but Big Blue mucked something up Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…
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OpenSSL swats a dozen bugs, one notable nasty
Denial of service dross dead. A dozen flaws have been patched in OpenSSL, including one high severity hole that allows denial of service attacks.…
DDoS attacks: For the hell of it or targeted – how do you see them off?
Cloud-based DDoS defences introduce delays Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can be painful and debilitating. How can you defend against them? Originally, out-of-band or scrubbing-centre DDoS protection was the only show in town, but another approach, inline mitigation, provides a viable and automatic alternative.…
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Israeli Pentagon DDoSers explain their work, get busted by FBI
There’s not much more than fine print between stress testing and DDoS-as-a-service Two Israeli men have been arrested for running a distributed-denial-of service-as-a-service site, after one seemingly claimed to attack the Pentagon.…
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Israeli Pentagon DDoSers explain their work, get busted by FBI