Careless net adminds leave systems with cleartext trousers down Security watchers have warned about a new class of DDoS amplification attack threat which only exists because too many users are failing to follow basic safeguards.…
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Hackers exploiting wide-open Portmap to amp up DDoS attacks
@DadSecurity creep responsible for DDoS… and swatting? Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts and another user were both targeted in swatting attacks at the apex of a series of hack attacks that may have led to the compromise of user logins at the high-profile, UK-based parenting site.…
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Mumsnet founder ‘swatted by misogynist griefers’
A million low end, pirate boxes still spewing malware relic. Three Dutch researchers have crunched data gleaned from efforts to battle the Conficker bot and declared anti-botnet initiatives all but useless for clean up efforts.…
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Anti-botnet initiatives USELESS in sea of patch-hating pirates
Malformed .MOV files can murder your movies Two Borg assimilators have discovered five denial of service vulnerabilities in Apple’s QuickTime.…
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Use QuickTime … and become part of the collective
Crims aim to cause just enough chaos to get in and out Hackers reportedly swamped Carphone Warehouse with junk traffic as a smokescreen, before breaking into systems and stealing the personal details of 2.4m customers .…
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Hackers hid Carphone Warehouse breach with DDoS smokescreen – report
Unknowing proxies help zombie army lurch forward Cyber-crooks behind the Bunitu botnet are selling access to infected proxy bots as a way to cash in from their network.…
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Bunitu botnet crooks sell your unencrypted VPN traffic for £££
Bad packets cause crashes. Cisco has closed a hole in its ASR 1000 line of enterprise and service provider-grade routers that could trigger denial of service.…
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Borg patches enterprise ASR router DoS hole
Easy to hack universal remote BIND DoS hole leaves DNS open to attack Gird your loins internet: Attackers now have the ability to disrupt large swathes of the web through a remote denial of service vulnerability found in the most widely used software for DNS servers.…
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Critical BIND bug scores PATCH YESTERDAY grading
When is a door not a door? When slapdash coding turns it into a glorified ‘off’ switch Internet Igors have stitched together a new Linux backdoor. Fortunately for internet hygiene the botnet agent – which packs a variety of powerful features – is faulty and only partially functional.…
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Unhinged Linux backdoor still poses a nuisance, if not a threat
And as for botnets … on their way out A new research report from the Global Commission on Internet Governance has reached a surprising conclusion: cyberspace is actually getting safer.…
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Cyber-security’s dirty little secret: It’s not as bad as you think