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
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Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users
Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’ DDoS attacks taking advantage of ill-advised use of memcached have begun to decline, either because sysadmins are securing the process, or because people are using a potentially-troublesome “kill switch”.…
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Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users
World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days
Memcached attacks are going to be this year’s thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…
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World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days
Sad-sack Anon calling himself ‘Mr Cunnilingus’ online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses
Electronics tutor’s taunts come back to haunt him An electronics technician pleaded guilty on Wednesday to orchestrating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a former employer and other organizations – and to unlawfully possessing a firearm as a former felon.…
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Mirai botnet: Three admit creating and running attack tool
Three men admit creating and running Mirai, a botnet used to block access to much of the web.
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DoS scum attacked one-third of the ‘net between 2015 and 2017
Even CHARGEN services are hosed, daily, says CAIDA study One-third of Internet hosts with IPv4 addresses were subject to denial of service attacks in the last two years.…
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DoS scum attacked one-third of the ‘net between 2015 and 2017
Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
But numbers aren’t everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…
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Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
New phishing campaign uses 20-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files.…
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
It could be you* The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet
The Play Store is looking buggier than ever A coalition of tech firms has taken down the WireX botnet, a malware network run predominantly off Android phones running subverted apps.…
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