Security News

Compromising Linux virtual machines via FFS Rowhammer attack (Help Net Security)
2016-08-18 21:19

A group of Dutch researchers have demonstrated a variant of the Rowhammer attack that can be used to successfully compromise Linux virtual machines on cloud servers. The Flip Feng Shui (FFS)...

Locky Targets Hospitals In Massive Wave Of Ransomware Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-08-18 15:34

A massive wave of Locky ransomware delivered via DOCM attachments is targeting the healthcare sector this month.

New wave of targeted attacks focus on industrial organizations (Help Net Security)
2016-08-17 20:56

Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered a new wave of targeted attacks against the industrial and engineering sectors in 30 countries around the world. Dubbed Operation Ghoul, these cybercriminals...

Subverting protection into DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2016-08-17 12:45

On average, DNSSEC reflection can transform an 80-byte query into a 2,313-byte response, an amplification factor of nearly 30 times, which can easily cause a network service outage during a DDoS...