Security News

Chinese firm recalls webcams over botnet DDoS woes (The Register)
2016-10-24 14:36

How a DDoS Cyberattack Caused Widespread Internet Outage (Yahoo Security)
2016-10-24 13:36

Dyn DDoS attack: The aftermath (Help Net Security)
2016-10-24 13:00

On October 21, New Hampshire-based Internet performance management company Dyn suffered the largest DDoS attack ever to be registered. The attacks – there were three, in relatively quick...

Hacktivist crew claims it launched last week's DDoS mega-attack (The Register)
2016-10-24 11:21

Mirai Botnets Used for DDoS Attacks on Dyn (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-24 08:51

Week in review: DNS DDoS, Linux kernel zero-day, VeraCrypt audited (Help Net Security)
2016-10-23 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Dirty COW Linux kernel zero-day exploited in the wild is now patched Linux developer Phil Oester has spotted...

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-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.

Major US DNS provider hit with DDoS, part of the Internet becomes unreachable (Help Net Security)
2016-10-21 23:20

US-based DNS provider Dyn has suffered a massive DDoS attack earlier today, and it resulted in many websites being completely or intermittently inaccessible for a few hours. According to status...

Dyn DDoS part 2: The hackers strike back (ZDNet)
2016-10-21 20:51