Security News

Github Attack Perpetrated by China’s Great Cannon Traffic Injection Tool (Threatpost)
2015-04-10 17:06

The Great Firewall's offensive counterpart, the Great Cannon, which inject malicious scripts to reroute traffic, is responsible for recent massive DDoS attacks targeting Github and GreatFire.org.

Group Behind SSH Brute Force Attacks Slowed Down (Threatpost)
2015-04-09 17:42

A criminal group whose actions have at times been responsible for one-third of the Internet’s SSH traffic—most of it in the form of SSH brute force attacks—has been cut off from a portion of the Internet.

Apple Fixes Proxy Manipulating Phantom Attack in iOS 8.3 (Threatpost)
2015-04-09 15:10

If left unpatched and exploited one of the vulnerabilities fixed in this week’s iOS update could’ve rendered an iPhone near useless.