Beware the denials of service: Netflix warns of eight networking bugs On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series of vulnerabilities that enable denial of service attacks against servers running HTTP/2 services.…
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HTTP/2, Brute! Then fall, server. Admin! Ops! The server is dead
Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…
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Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’
Plus, Safari security foiled by… a finger swipe? Roundup This week we wrangled with alleged Russian election meddling, hundreds of millions of username-password combos spilled online , Oracle mega-patches , and cliams of RICO swap-gangs .…
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DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc
Bad news if you’ve been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…
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Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’
Infamous IoT menace lives on in its hellspawn Cybercrooks are using the infamous Mirai IoT botnet as a framework to quickly add in new exploits and functionalities, it has emerged.…
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OMG, that’s downright Wicked: Botnet authors twist corpse of Mirai into new threats
I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…
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Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw
After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…
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Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find
Net scum target florists on day of commercialised romance Net scum have bashed florists with distributed denial of service attacks over Valentine’s Day in a bid to extract ransoms, security analysts say.…
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Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day means DDoS for you
Last week HSBC’s online banking website was taken down by a DDoS attack, leaving thousands of customers unable to access its services. Here are some of the comments Help Net Security received. …
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Reactions to the HSBC DDoS attack
DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly larger, more complex, and perpetrated by cyber extortionist instead of hacktivists and vandals, the results of Arbor Networks' 11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructu…
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Larger, more complex, financially motivated DDoS attacks on the rise