No RCE, but lots of Unix DDoS fun Holes in the Webmin Unix management tool – thankfully since patched – could allow attackers to delete data on servers, says security researcher John Gordon of the University of Texas.…
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Webmin hole allows attackers to wipe servers clean
OMG, it reconfigures your firewall… SAVE yourselves, Linux lords A router-to-router bot first detected two years ago has evolved – and now has the capability to reconfigure the firewalls of its victims.…
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Use home networking kit? DDoS bot is BACK… and it has EVOLVED
Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties New Zealand’s largest ISP, Spark, has spent the weekend fighting off a DDOS incorrectly assumed to have a connection with last week’s nude celebrity picture scandal.…
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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP
CyberVor, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Anecdotal evidence is emerging that the Russian botnet raiders behind the “biggest-ever” password theft have begun attacks against web services using stolen login credentials.…
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Gang behind ‘1.2 billion’ megahack ransack is pwning our customers – hosting firm
Planning on haxing Netflix? Don’t plan it on Facebook NetFlix’s security team has given the open source treatment to three tools it uses to monitor the internet and gather evidence of planned attacks against its infrastructure.…
Did DDoS attack on Sony kick Beeb TV offline? Updated The BBC’s web servers fell over today, taking down its online news and iPlayer services – but it’s unclear whether the outage relates to the significant Distributed Denial of Service attack hitting Sony’s gaming network right now.…
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BBC goes titsup: iPlayer to News websites down – Auntie working to fix it
Zombies twitch, lurch to feet after FBI takedown The Gameover ZeuS malware is back from the dead just six weeks after a takedown operations that aimed to put a stake through the heart of the botnet, which is linked to the even more infamous CryptoLocker ransomware.…
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Gameover ZeuS botnet pulls dripping stake from heart, staggers back from the UNDEAD
RAM scrapers foisted on 60 terminals A botnet has compromised 60 point of sale (PoS) terminals by brute-force password attacks against poorly-secured connections, FireEye researchers say.…
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Brute-force bot busts shonky PoS passwords
Blog networks can be force-fed more than they can chew Giant cookies could be used to create a denial of service (DoS) on blog networks, says infosec researcher Bogdan Calin.…
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MONSTER COOKIES can nom nom nom ALL THE BLOGS
Cloudflare claims tip-off allowed it to tip traffic into sinkholes One of the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit a controversial online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll