- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 13th, 2016
DHCP Gets a Fix for Denial-of-Service Bug
ISC fixes DoS issue with DHCP software packages
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 22nd, 2015
You Can Crash WhatsApp by Sending an Insane Amount of Emojis
The only way to get around the issue and avoid crashing WhatsApp is to delete conversations containing the emoji bomb
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 4th, 2015
High-Impact DoS Vulnerability in Node 0.12.x Through 5.x, Update Now
Node.js team releases new versions to fix 2 security bugs
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 16th, 2015
Libpng Bug Affects Thousands of Software Applications
Multiple buffer overflows in libpng, a very common C library
- PC Games
- By Silviu Stahie
- November 13th, 2015
System Shock Complete Remake Is in the Works
The remake is being done by Night Dive Studios
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 9th, 2015
Security Flaw Allowed Attackers to Take Control Over PCs Connected to a Huawei 4G USB Modem
Huawei fixed the issue and has prepared new firmware
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 1st, 2015
HTTP Denial of Service Vulnerability Found in Node.js 4.x and io.js 3.x
A patch will be released on Monday, October 5
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 17th, 2015
DDoS Attacks Used to Mask More Serious Intrusions
Most of the times it's malware infections and data breaches
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 16th, 2015
DRDoS Attacks Can Now Propagate via BitTorrent Clients UPDATE
BitTorrent, Vuze, and uTorrent clients are vulnerable
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 4th, 2015
Node.js Fixes Denial of Service Bug
Security update released specifically for fixing 1 glitch
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 25th, 2015
Node.js Patches Against Logjam Attack
New OpenSSL version fixes flaw causing denial-of-service
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 4th, 2015
DDoS Attacks More Frequent but Not Stronger, Report Shows
Political activism and hacktivism believed to be the cause for attacking entities in the financial and public sector
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 4th, 2015
Teen Brings Down Fulton School District's Network
17-year-old now faces criminal charges, to be tried as adult
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 9th, 2015
iOS, OS X Kernel Bug Causes DoS Condition on Apps and Network Services
Chrome receives OOB byte and freezes completely
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 31st, 2015
Anonymous Proxies Used for “Shotgun DDoS” Attacks
Technique requires limited resources, has notable impact
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 28th, 2015
MongoDB Servers Crashed by Flaw in Third-Party Library
Specially crafted regular expression brings system down
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 26th, 2015
Cisco’s IOS Patched Against Denial of Service Condition
Multiple routers and switches affected by the flaws