Security News

BitTorrent Patch Throttles Reflective DDoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-08-27 20:21

BitTorrent today announced that a patch has been rolled out in the libuTP protocol used by many of its clients, fixing a vulnerability that allows attackers to carry out distributed reflective...

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack (Threatpost)
2015-08-25 14:01

Github said it turned back a distributed denial of service attack; it’s unknown whether this attack is related to a similar attack this March.

UDP-based Portmap latest target for DDoS attackers looking to amplify attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-08-20 10:00

US-based carrier and global backbone operator Level 3 has spotted a new vector being used for DDoS reflection attacks: Portmapper (or simply Portmap). The Portmap service redirects the client to t...