Security News

Cisco squashes DoS bug in its unified infrastructure software (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 08:52

Cisco has released a patch for a serious remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting its Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director offerings. "A vulnerability in Jav...

Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-08-17 17:42

Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks.

BitTorrent clients can be made to participate in high-volume DoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-08-17 10:22

A group of researchers have discovered a new type of DoS attack that can be pulled off by a single attacker exploiting weaknesses in the BitTorrent protocol family. The weaknesses in the Micro Tran...