Security News

Mirai Linux Trojan corrals IoT devices into DDoS botnets (Help Net Security)
2016-09-07 13:30

Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently gotten their hands on...

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...

Juniper Hotfixes Shut Down IPv6 DDoS Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2016-08-10 18:09

Juniper Networks announced patches for a serious vulnerability in the handling of IPv6 packets that is says could leave its Junos OS and JUNOSe routers open to a distributed denial of service...