Security News > 2016 > October

Dyn DDoS attack post-mortem: Users inadvertently helped (Help Net Security)
2016-10-27 19:25

As StarHub, one of the three major telcos in Singapore, confirmed that they were the latest victim of “intentional and likely malicious distributed denial-of-service attacks” on their DNS system,...

Hardware Bit-Flipping Attacks in Practice (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-27 19:23

A year and a half ago, I wrote about hardware bit-flipping attacks, which were then largely theoretical. Now, they can be used to root Android phones: The breakthrough has the potential to make...

Dyn DDoS Could Have Topped 1 Tbps (Threatpost)
2016-10-27 18:48

Analysis by DNS provider Dyn hints that more than 1 terabyte per second of traffic may have been used in last week's massive DDoS attack that impacted Internet service on the East Coast.

Keen Lab Takes Down iPhone 6S, Nexus 6P at Mobile Pwn2Own (Threatpost)
2016-10-27 18:42

Hackers with Keen Team identified vulnerabilities in iOS 10.1 and Android Nougat at Mobile Pwn2Own this week.