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5G network slicing vulnerability leaves enterprises exposed to cyberattacks

AdaptiveMobile Security today publicly disclosed details of a major security flaw in the architecture of 5G network slicing and virtualized network functions. The fundamental vulnerability has the potential to allow data access and denial of service attacks between different network slices on a mobile operator’s 5G network, leaving enterprise customers exposed to malicious cyberattack. The issue has the potential to cause significant security risks to enterprises using network slicing and undermine operators’ attempts to open … More ? The post 5G network slicing vulnerability leaves enterprises exposed to cyberattacks appeared first on Help Net Security .

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How prevalent is DNS spoofing? Could a repeat of the Dyn/Mirai DDoS attack have the same results?

Two separate groups of academics have recently released research papers based on research into the Domain Name System (DNS). One has found that the overwhelming majority of popular site operators haven’t learned from the 2016 Dyn/Mirai incident/attack and set up a backup DNS server, and the other has shown that the rate of DNS spoofing, though still very small, has more than doubled in less than seven years. DNS dependency Carnegie Mellon University PhD student … More ? The post How prevalent is DNS spoofing? Could a repeat of the Dyn/Mirai DDoS attack have the same results? appeared first on Help Net Security .

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How prevalent is DNS spoofing? Could a repeat of the Dyn/Mirai DDoS attack have the same results?

HTTP/2, Brute! Then fall, server. Admin! Ops! The server is dead

Beware the denials of service: Netflix warns of eight networking bugs On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series of vulnerabilities that enable denial of service attacks against servers running HTTP/2 services.…

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Vigilante VXer FIXES SOHOpeless routers

Stallman sycophant offers password reminders and handy debug tips. Threat boffin Mario Ballano says VXers have broken into a host of routers creating a botnet dedicated solely to securing and hardening the devices.…

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Vigilante VXer FIXES SOHOpeless routers

Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5bn hits

Once-theoretical attack vector appears fully-formed on CloudFlare’s doorstep CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…

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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5bn hits

3l33t haxxors don’t need no botnet, they just pinch passwords

Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…

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Bored Brazilian skiddie claims DDoS against Essex Police

‘I will do 19 years’ attacker says in garbled English – perhaps accidentally right A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week.…

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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted

Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…

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