Security News

Internet Root Name Servers Survive Unusual DDoS Attack (Threatpost)
2015-12-09 18:50

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses.

Attack floods Internet root servers with 5 million queries a second (ArsTechnica)
2015-12-09 17:40

5 Million PPS to most DNS Root Servers (Reddit)
2015-12-08 17:52

Rootnik Trojan Modifies Legitimate Root Tool to Hack Android Devices (SecurityWeek)
2015-12-07 15:23

chroot() as non-root user (Reddit)
2015-12-05 20:22

Is Kazakhstan about to man-in-the-middle diddle all of its internet traffic with dodgy root certs? (The Register)
2015-12-03 21:07

Microsoft revokes trust in Dell's dangerous root certificate (ZDNet)
2015-12-01 16:37

Windows machines stop trusting Dell's two unconstrained root CA certs (Help Net Security)
2015-12-01 13:31

Microsoft has updated the Certificate Trust list for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows so that the two digital certificates (complete with inadvertently disclosed private keys) used by Dell ...

Week in review: Dell computers shipped with root CA cert and private key, analytics services tracking users via Chrome extensions (Help Net Security)
2015-11-30 06:57

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Four ways an attacker can infiltrate an organization by diverting security solutions Even if we theoretically had th...

The Dell Root Certificate situation just got messier (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2015-11-27 10:07