Security News

Mirai Botnet Pummels Internet DNS in Unprecedented Attack (InfoRiskToday)
2016-10-22 12:36

Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers (Threatpost)
2016-10-22 10:00

Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others.

Double-dip Internet-of-Things botnet attack felt across the Internet (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-21 21:36

DDoS Attack Blamed for Massive Outages (InfoRiskToday)
2016-10-21 17:51

Serious Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability Under Attack (Threatpost)
2016-10-21 15:21

A privilege escalation vulnerability, nicknamed Dirty Cow and present in Linux since 2007, has been used in public attacks against web-facing Linux servers.

Dyn, a managed DNS service, hit with attack, popular sites see performance issues (ZDNet)
2016-10-21 14:36

DoS attack on major DNS provider brings Internet to morning crawl (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-21 14:36

Twitter, Others Disrupted by DDoS Attack on Dyn DNS Service (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-21 14:06

U.S. web provider says probing East Coast cyber attack (Yahoo Security)
2016-10-21 14:06

Dyn Confirms DDoS Attack Affecting Twitter, Github, Many Others (Threatpost)
2016-10-21 14:01

DNS providers Dyn suffered a DDoS attack this morning that affected many of its major customers including Twitter, Spotify, Github and others.