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Early today, some party unleashed a massive DDoS attack against Dyn, a major DNS host. This led to a number of websites being completely inaccessible. DNS is the backbone of the Internet. It is the...
View ArticlePrinter Vulnerabilites Almost as Bad as IoT
Recently ZDNet and Gizmodo published articles outlining a critical flaw in a large array of personal printers. While the number of printers with this flaw is staggering, the ramifications are even more...
View ArticleMemcached Servers Abused For DDoS Attacks
Cloudflare announced recently that they are seeing an increase in amplification attacks using memcached servers, and that this exploit has the potential to be a big problem because memcached is capable...
View ArticleThis Week in Security: Zeroconf Strikes Again, Lastpass Leaks your Last...
VoIP cameras, DVRs, and other devices running the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WSDD) protocol are being used in a new type of DDoS attack. This isn’t the first time a zeroconf service has been...
View ArticleThis Week in Security: DNS DDOS, Revenge of the 15 Year Old Bug, and More
Another DDOS amplification technique has just recently been disclosed, NXNSAttack (technical paper here) that could be used against DNS servers. We’ve covered amplification attacks before. The short...
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This Week in Security: Somebody’s Watching, Microsoft + Linux, DDoS
In case you needed yet another example of why your IoT devices shouldn’t be exposed to the internet, a large swath of Hikvision IP Cameras have a serious RCE vulnerability. CVE-2021-36260 was...
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Hackaday Links: July 28, 2024
What is this dystopia coming to when one of the world’s largest tech companies can’t find a way to sufficiently monetize a nearly endless stream of personal data coming from its army of high-tech...
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