Security News

Chinese Manufacturer Recalls IOT Gear Following Dyn DDoS (Threatpost)
2016-10-24 18:46

Millions of IP-enabled cameras built on gear manufactured by Hangzhou Xiongmai of China is being recalled after DDoS attacks powered by compromised IOT devices took down a major DNS provider last week.

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...

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...