|
|
|
30
Contrary to popular beliefs, bigger isn’t always necessary better. This is especially true when it comes to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks where instead of size, much more significant is the type of attack. This is just one of the conclusions published by Radware’s Emergency Response Team (... |
6 February 2012
10:49 GMT |
 |
|
Ever since the Megaupload closure, hackers part of the Anonymous collective have been launching distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against government websites as a form of protest and now, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) released an advisory to help site administrators deal wit... |
30 January 2012
04:39 GMT |
|
|
One of Australia’s largest online broking companies, E*Trade, was shut down during the holidays after being targeted by a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Mostly customers from overseas were affected, but Australians also had trouble accessing the websites on December 19 and 20 as a result of the thousands of s... |
4 January 2012
10:44 GMT |
|
|
On December 29th, 2011, Microsoft released an out-of-band security update for all Windows flavors starting with Windows XP, in an attempt to fix a number of vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and later. Four security holes were patched with this update, one of which was rated critical. Whil... |
30 December 2011
03:11 GMT |
|
|
A couple of researchers showed how a common flaw in the implementation of the most popular web programming languages and applications can be used to force servers to use their CPU at full capacity for several minutes, causing a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink made a presentat... |
29 December 2011
07:16 GMT |
|
|
A serious vulnerability that could allow a cybercriminal to issue a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Ruby was found. The attack is possible with the aid of a specially crafted series of strings that collide their hash values. The deterministic hash function used to hash a string in the 1.8 series of Ruby, which mak... |
29 December 2011
04:17 GMT |
|
|
The latest variant of the popular open source instant messaging application, Pidgin 2.10.1, comes with several functionality bug fixes, but also with some important ones that resolve flaws which could have allowed an attacker to launch a malicious operation.
One of the issues, reported by Evgeny Boger, could have be... |
16 December 2011
04:47 GMT |
|
|
The hacker collective turned their anger against some websites belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the oldest and largest Islamist parties in Egypt.
According to The Hacker News, four of their main sites were taken down after the hackers used servers from Germany, France, Slovakia and the US to launch denial... |
14 November 2011
08:35 GMT |
|
|
Almost a quarter of all cyber masterminds prefer to use DoS or DDoS attacks, while 19% rely on SQL injections to complete their evil missions.After doing some digging on a popular hacker forum, the guys at Imperva came up with a report called "Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Monthly Trend Report", that shows these ar... |
18 October 2011
03:14 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has made available for download a new tool designed to help customers evaluate their projects and see whether their Cloud applications are exposed to Denial of Service attacks. The SDL Regex Fuzzer is now up for grabs from the Microsoft Download Center, free of charge, and as the official label implies, th... |
13 October 2010
06:27 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has made available for download the second Beta development milestone of an anti-DoS extension for version 7.0 of Internet information Services. The Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 has reached Beta 2 and is up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center in two flavors, 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit... |
27 August 2010
06:19 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has reacted rapidly to public reports of a zero-day denial-of-service vulnerability in its latest iterations of the Windows client and server operating systems, and is providing customers with guidance on how to block potential attempts to take advantage of the security flaw. In this regard, the Redmond com... |
14 November 2009
07:04 GMT |
|
|
Windows 7 might not have been affected by any of the November security bulletins released by Microsoft, but this doesn’t mean that the operating system is bulletproof. In fact, a zero-day vulnerability, impacting both the latest iteration of Windows client and server operating systems, has been documented in th... |
12 November 2009
10:09 GMT |
|
|
A recent security report from Maksymilian Arciemowicz presented on the SecurityReason website details how remote users could crash PCs running Kaspersky-owned products. Pointing the antivirus to parse a URL, the users' CPU can be tricked to consume excessive resources and eventually crash. The vulnerability aff... |
21 August 2009
10:02 GMT |
|
|
What better way to revitalize the Windows brand than to go back in time all the way to the “good old” DOS days? The original steps of the new, reportedly $300 million-worth Windows marketing campaign managed to focus only in part on the Windows client itself, delivering instead a much broader approach als... |
10 December 2008
04:49 GMT |
|
|
A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday, 25 August 2008, in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and/or loss of privacy. The security fl... |
26 August 2008
02:29 GMT |
|
|
Blogs were inaccessible for about 5 to 15 minutes in the 4 days that have passed since Saturday, when the attack started. Automattic, the company that maintains WordPress.com, was knee deep in the work laid before them by hackers all throughout this period and managed to restore most of the service's original fu... |
20 February 2008
10:53 GMT |
|
|
The distributed denial of service has been revealed to be the second most feared thing for Internet Service providers out there, as a recent study by Arbor Networks shows. Their worst fear is a botnet, since not only can it be used for DDoS but it has other capabilities, too. However, BT, in partnership with Arbor Ne... |
4 October 2007
03:02 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft Live Messenger is just another one of the products that help Microsoft maintain its first place in the chart for the most vulnerable vendors. Version 8.1 and possibly other versions too, have a flaw. The application does not bound-check user-supplied input the way it should and that's why it is prone t... |
25 September 2007
04:15 GMT |
|
|
A flaw has been disclosed within Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. This, if properly exploited, can cause a denial of service, but do not worry, the vendor has already released a patch to repair this issue! It will only affect firmware versions prior to 7.2.1, so just update and this will no longer be a problem for... |
5 September 2007
09:28 GMT |
|
|
StarCraft Brood War has been disclosed to have a vulnerability that may cause a denial of service (DoS) attack. The flaw comes with the minimap preview and it has not been repaired by any patch. It's not such a big deal, but somebody could make you program crash (remotely) right in the middle of the game, which ... |
5 September 2007
02:53 GMT |
|
|
This software has been disclosed to have a couple of vulnerabilities that, if exploited by malicious users, could cause Denial of Service. The DoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to a certain user. It is generally used to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or... |
22 August 2007
11:18 GMT |
|
|
Windows Vista can be completely killed by pressing a simple combination of just two keys. All you need to crush Microsoft's latest operating system and put the much-applauded Wow at an end is two fingers. This issue has been reported independently of Microsoft, and the Redmond company has failed to issue any off... |
13 July 2007
14:22 GMT |
|
|
Windows Vista, Microsoft's most secure Windows platform on the market, can be rendered inoperable via network attacks. A vulnerability residing in the operating system's network stacks makes Vista vulnerable to exploits through a local network. Due to the fact that the attacks do not allow for remote code e... |
17 May 2007
05:13 GMT |
|
|
|
|
Find us on Google+
