- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 5th, 2018
Californian Gets 26 Months in Jail for DDoS Attacks Against Cloudy Nights Forum
Forum ban the reason behind series of DDoS attacks
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 23rd, 2018
DoS Vulnerabilities Found in Linux Kernel, Unpatched
Local attacks could trigger DoS state via crafted sys calls
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 19th, 2018
Multiple Remote TP-Link TL-R600VPN Router Vulnerabilities Patched
RCE, information disclosure, and DoS issues fixed by TP-Link
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 8th, 2018
Man Pleads Guilty to Sony PlayStation Network DoS Attacks, Faces 10 Years Jail
He was also behind the LoL, Dota 2, and Battle.net attacks
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 7th, 2018
nginx Security Issues Expose More than 14 Million Servers to DoS Attacks
The vulnerabilities reside in the HTTP/2 and MP4 modules
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 31st, 2018
Actively Exploited High Impact DoS Vulnerability Found in Cisco ASA and FTD
Allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger DoS
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 29th, 2018
Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability Patched in Squid Proxy Cache Server
Issue could affect other processes on the same machine
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 23rd, 2018
Chalubo DDoS Botnet Compromises Linux SSH Servers Using Brute-Force Attacks
Attackers use brute-force SSH attacks to compromise targets
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 15th, 2018
Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in PHP Lead to Arbitrary Code Execution, DoS
Security issues fixed in PHP 7.1.23 / 7.2.11 releases
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 9th, 2018
VMware Workstation, Fusion, and ESXi Affected by DoS Vulnerability, No Patch Yet
The DoS vulnerability can be mitigated using workarounds
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 19th, 2018
Bitcoin Core Patches DoS Vulnerability That Could Crash Bitcoin Core Nodes
Nodes running versions 0.14.0 to 0.16.2 were vulnerable
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 16th, 2018
Specially Crafted Webpage Crashes Almost All Browsers
Safari for iOS was the first vulnerable browser reported
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 29th, 2016
Kaspersky Fixes Bugs That Allowed Attackers to Crash Its Antivirus
Kaspersky fixes three DoS flaws, one information leak bug
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 14th, 2016
Iranian Hackers Find Telegram Bug That Can Crash App, Use Mobile Bandwidth
Researchers couldn't report vulnerability to Telegram devs
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 25th, 2016
Petya Ransomware Uses DOS-Level Lock Screen, Prevents OS Boot Up
Petya uses old-school ransomware tactics, seems to be doing fine without employing powerful encryption
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 14th, 2016
Imgur's Video to GIF Feature Abused to Send Spam and Shut Down the Service
Researchers earned $2,000 for his discovery
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 22nd, 2016
Attackers Can Crash Your FreeBSD Box with One Single Malefic Ping
FreeBSD project released patches to address the issue