Security News

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...

Mirai Botnet Pummels Internet DNS in Unprecedented Attack (InfoRiskToday)
2016-10-22 12:36

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, a managed DNS service, hit with attack, popular sites see performance issues (ZDNet)
2016-10-21 14:36

DoS attack on major DNS provider brings Internet to morning crawl (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-21 14:36

Dyn dinged by DDoS: US DNS firm gives web a bad hair day (The Register)
2016-10-21 14:36

Twitter, Others Disrupted by DDoS Attack on Dyn DNS Service (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-21 14:06

Cybercriminals Target Blockchain in DNS Attack (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-14 11:08

Unmasking Tor users with DNS (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 13:36

The DefecTor attack uses DNS lookups to create a new spin on correlation attacks.