Security News

China electronics firm to recall some U.S. products after hacking attack (Yahoo Security)
2016-10-24 07:36

Moscow Confirms Ministry Website Attack After U.S. Hacker Claim (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-24 02:21

Companies urged to use multiple vendors in wake of cyber attack (Yahoo Security)
2016-10-24 01:51

Attacks on the internet keep getting bigger and nastier (Yahoo Security)
2016-10-22 16:06

DDoS Attacks against Dyn (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-22 13:47

Yesterday's DDoS attacks against Dyn are being reported everywhere. I have received a gazillion press requests, but I am traveling in Australia and Asia and have had to decline most of them....

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.