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The Apache Software Foundation has released a new version of its web server in order to patch a serious denial of service vulnerability that endangers most installations.The flaw, identified as CVE-2011-3192, was disclosed as a zero-day last week when a hacker calling himself Kingcope released a proof-of-concept atta... |
31 August 2011
09:10 GMT |
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An exploit released on the Full Security mailinglist enables potential attackers to execute remote denial of service attacks against Apache web servers with ease.
Unlike distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that rely on sheer numbers to overload servers with requests, this attack exploits a vulnerability t... |
25 August 2011
07:17 GMT |
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Hong Kong police has arrested an individual suspected of being responsible for the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx).Two weeks ago, HKEx was forced to suspend trading for seven stocks including HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the exchan... |
24 August 2011
02:44 GMT |
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A fundraising drive organized by Texas Congressman Ron Paul was disrupted because his campaign website became the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.Congressman Paul hopes to be nominated as the Republican's party candidate for the 2010 presidential election.This past weekend's fundrais... |
23 August 2011
13:09 GMT |
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Several security issues have been addressed in version 2.10.0 of the Pidgin instant messaging application, which could be exploited to trigger a denial of service condition or compromise the system.The vulnerability that can have the most serious impact stems from the IM client previously executing files when users c... |
22 August 2011
10:57 GMT |
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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released a security patch for its DHCP server software in order to address serious denial of service vulnerabilities.The two defects, identified as CVE-2011-2748 and CVE-2011-2749, were found by David Zych from the University of Illinois and ISC's own development team.Th... |
12 August 2011
11:58 GMT |
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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) suspended trading for seven stocks after its news website was incapacitated by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.The attack began on Wednesday and continued through Thursday. The affected stocks included HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong ... |
12 August 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Anonymous supporters are building a new denial of service tool which is said to exploit SQL vulnerabilities to support the group's future campaigns. According to The Tech Herald which spoke with its creators, the new tool is called RefRef and is developed in JavaScript. This means that it works in any modern br... |
30 July 2011
06:27 GMT |
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LiveJournal has experienced downtime during the past couple of days because of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that overwhelmed the company's servers.The outages began on Tuesday, but the company didn't release a statement until yesterday when it confirmed it was the target of an attack."We c... |
28 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Romanian antivirus vendor BitDefender warns that a piece of malware designed for DDoS is being distributed as a Java update."We have recently come across this type of malware dissembling as a regular update to the Java platform," BitDefender's Loredana Botezatu writes."Closer investigation on the file revealed m... |
20 July 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Monstanto, a large US agricultural biotechnology technology, confirmed that its websites were the target of distributed denial-of-service attacks orchestrated by Anonymous.The notorious hacktivist collective announced a new operation yesterday targeting the leading producer of genetically engineered seeds because of ... |
14 July 2011
10:57 GMT |
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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates for the BIND DNS daemon in order to address two serious vulnerabilities that can crash servers."A defect in the affected BIND 9 versions allows an attacker to remotely cause the "named" process to exit using a specially crafted packet. This defect af... |
5 July 2011
14:20 GMT |
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Anonymous has launched an operation against the city of Orlando after members of a charity feeding homeless people started being arrested by the authorities.In 2006, following complaints that mass feedings held in parks were disruptive, the city issued an ordinance that requires groups who wish to organize such event... |
30 June 2011
08:30 GMT |
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The co-founder of digital content delivery service YouSendIt admitted to launching a denial of service attack against the company's servers.Khalid Shaikh, 32, served as YouSendIt's CEO from its creation in 2004 until August 2005. He then acted as its chief technology officer until November 2006 when he left... |
28 June 2011
10:29 GMT |
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The Pidgin development team has released version 2.0.9 of the popular instant messaging application in order to address a remotely-exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability.Identified as CVE-2011-2485, the vulnerability was discovered by Mark Doliner and allows an attacker to crash a user's application by simp... |
27 June 2011
11:45 GMT |
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Pavel Vrublevsky, CEO and co-founder of ChronoPay, the largest payment processing company in Russia, was arrested on the suspicion of hiring a hacker to attack a rival company.According to security researchers, Vrublevsky, 32, and his company are deeply involved in cyber crime. The Russian businessman is said to be b... |
27 June 2011
00:41 GMT |
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A UK teenager arrested earlier this week has been officially charged in connection with LulzSec and Anonymous attacks against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, wa... |
23 June 2011
04:35 GMT |
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After launching an anti-government campaign yesterday, the notorious LulzSec hacking outfit attacked the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).The hackers called on everyone with the know-how, enemies and friends alike, to hack online assets belonging to governments around the world in retaliation t... |
20 June 2011
13:26 GMT |
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The notorious hacking outfit LulzSec continues to taunt the U.S. government by attacking cia.gov days after it DDoSed the Senate's website.As usual, there doesn't seem to be any specific reason for the attack except for the usual lulz. For those who are not familiar with Anonymous-related memes, "lulz" is t... |
16 June 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Siemens has released a firmware update for its SIMATIC S7-1200 product in order to address two vulnerabilities that can be exploited to intercept data or crash the programmable logic controller (PLC).The first weakness allows potential attackers to record communications transmitted by the engineering software to the ... |
14 June 2011
14:45 GMT |
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Hacking outfit LulzSec is hitting websites at random in a distributed denial-of-service spree dubbed Titanic Takeover Tuesday by its members.The notorious hackers that attacked numerous companies and leaked tons of personal data during the past several weeks, began targeting the escapistmagazine.com website because g... |
14 June 2011
13:49 GMT |
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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates for the BIND DNS server software in order to address a serious denial of service vulnerability.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-1910, could be exploited by attackers to crash a large number of BIND 9 DNS resolvers by sending specially crafte... |
27 May 2011
13:45 GMT |
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Greyhat hackers from Goatse Security have published the details of a dangerous denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affecting many Linux distributions.The flaw can be exploited by tricking users into opening an overly-long, specially-crafted apt:// URL in a browser that supports the protocol."This bug is delightfull... |
16 May 2011
10:53 GMT |
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The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning advising companies and users to disable WebGL in their browsers because of recently disclosed security issues.An information security consultancy firm called Context has recently published a white paper about the security risks of WebGL, a relativ... |
11 May 2011
13:23 GMT |
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Anonymous has declared war against the New Zealand government after a controversial anti-piracy law was passed in the country.Anonymous posters distributed online recently have called onto users to join distributed denial-of-service attacks against New Zealand Parliament's website.www.parliament.nz was hit on Sa... |
5 May 2011
07:22 GMT |
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Newsnet Scotland, a news website critical of Scottish Unionist parties, has been offline for twelve hours following what its administration believes was a politically motivated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.The website went down at 12:55 pm on Monday and the web team immediately began working its Danish... |
19 April 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Malaysia's top news website, Malaysiakini.com, was the victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday which rendered it unreachable.It's unclear who instrumented the attack or what was their intention, but it coincided with the start of elections in Sarawak, the largest Malaysian state lo... |
13 April 2011
02:55 GMT |
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Several Sony websites have experienced downtime during the last 24 hours as a result of distributed denial-of-service attacks mounted by the Anonymous collective.The hacktivist group announced that it will target Sony in an open letter posted online yesterday, which accused the company of breaching the privacy of num... |
5 April 2011
04:26 GMT |
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South Korea has taken recent DDoS attacks against governmental websites very seriously and plans to start work on strengthening defenses against such threats.Yonhap news agency reports that the Ministry of Public Administration and Security intends to place all city intranets and the country's entire governmenta... |
22 March 2011
14:57 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivist group has revived Operation Payback by launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against bmi.com, the website of Broadcast Music Incorporated.Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a US organization which collects music license fees and represents the interests of songwriters, composers and publish... |
11 March 2011
06:26 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified a botnet of Chinese origin that is mainly used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against companies connected to the mining industry.Dubbed JKDDOS by Arbor Networks, a company specializing in network security solutions, the malware was first observed back in Septmeber... |
9 March 2011
06:58 GMT |
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WordPress.com was the target of several major distributed denial-of-service attacks last week that were launched from computers in China.WordPress.com is a blog hosting service based on the WordPress platform and run by Automattic, the company that maintains and sponsors the software.The service hosts around 18 milli... |
7 March 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Almost thirty governmental and private South Korean websites were hit this weekend in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched with the help of a small botnet.The Presidential, Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry websites were targeted, along with those of many financial institutions, but the impact wa... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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BIND maintainer Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released an update which fixes a high risk, remotely exploitable, denial-of-service vulnerability in the DNS server software.Identified as CVE-2011-0414, the flaw affects BIND versions 9.7.1 and 9.7.2, and was discovered by Neustar, the company responsible fo... |
24 February 2011
00:46 GMT |
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Oracle has released a fix for a serious vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment which could allow attackers to execute remote denial of service attacks against Java-based applications and servers.The bug was recently documented by Konstantin Preißer and triggers an infinite loop in the runtime when trying... |
9 February 2011
12:13 GMT |
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The PHP Group has released patches for a serious denial of service bug that endangers the stability of numerous PHP Web applications.The bug was first discovered and reported on his blog by a computer expert named Rick Regan, who noticed that <?php $d = 2.2250738585072011e-308; ?> send the parser in an infi... |
5 January 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Security researchers claim that many feature mobile phones, including some of the most popular models in the world, are vulnerable to SMS-based attacks which can disconnect them from the network or force them to shutdown.Dubbed the "SMS of Death," this type of attack was presented on Monday at the 27th Chaos Communic... |
29 December 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Apple has released a firmware update for its Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station products addressing several vulnerabilities, most of which can lead to a denial of service condition.The new 7.5.2 firmware version addresses a total of five vulnerabilities affecting AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n, AirPort ... |
17 December 2010
06:17 GMT |
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UK's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is investigating both older and recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks orchestrated by Anonymous.MPS launched its probe into the hacktivist group's actions after receiving complaints from several affected organizations during the last couple of months."Ear... |
16 December 2010
12:15 GMT |
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WikiLeaks’ publication of a large cache of confidential and secret U.S. diplomatic cables at the beginning of this week turned the organization into a target for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.The first attack was launched last Sunday, on the eve of the release, and caused significant disruptions ... |
1 December 2010
03:41 GMT |
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As it was preparing to begin releasing a massive cache of secret US diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks was hit by a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which temporarily crippled its website.The announcement was made from the organizations official Twitter account and read: "We are currently under a mass dis... |
29 November 2010
04:15 GMT |
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The South Korean government has installed virtual shelters to protect business networks and critical Internet infrastructure from crippling DDoS attacks like the one that hit the country in 2009.The new service was revealed by Jinhyun Cho, a senior researcher at Korea Internet Security Center (KrCERT/CC), who represe... |
19 November 2010
11:55 GMT |
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The Tumblr and 4chan websites suffered various downtimes after its members decided to attack each other with distributed denial of service and images of cute kittens.The 4chan image board is the birthplace of many Internet memes and is responsible for advancing many others, such as the LOLcat phenomenon - the posting... |
15 November 2010
11:58 GMT |
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Burma has been offline since Tuesday, when a massive DDoS attack clogged the country's modest 45 Mbps Internet pipeline with junk traffic hitting at a rate of between 10 and 15 Gbps.Officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Asian nation, which has a longstanding history of human rights violat... |
4 November 2010
11:13 GMT |
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A local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute malicious code with root rights was patched in the newly released Linux kernel 2.6.36.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2010-3904, is located in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in Linux kernel and can be ex... |
21 October 2010
13:46 GMT |
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KISS frontman Gene Simmons has angered Anonymous after he threatened to expose and sue the group's members, who DDoSed his websites last week.The incidents started after Simmons made some very strong comments regarding illegal file sharing during a recent panel about entertainment brands."The music industry was ... |
18 October 2010
06:52 GMT |
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A group of Anonymous members has launched successful denial of service attacks against two websites belonging to KISS frontman Gene Simmons, after he recently made some aggressive comments regarding illegal file sharing.For almost a month now, a notorious group of Internet activists called Anonymous has been at war w... |
14 October 2010
11:13 GMT |
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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 |
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After hitting international, American and Spanish recording and film industry associations, Anonymous is organizing a coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI).On Saturday, Anonymous announced that the group's new targets for Sunday and t... |
11 October 2010
12:16 GMT |
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A weakness in a libc function allows attackers to execute denial of service attacks against numerous public FTP servers running on multiple operating systems.The vulnerability was discovered by Maksymilian Arciemowicz (cixb) of SecurityReason.com and is described as a multiple-vendor libc/glob(3) resource exhaustion.... |
7 October 2010
09:04 GMT |
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