2015
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Xen Project plugs critical host hijacking flaw, patch ASAP
The latest security update (XSA-145 through 153) for the popular Xen virtualization software fixes nine issues. Eight of them can lead to Denial of Service, but the ninth…
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China is the top target for DDoS reflection attacks
China bore the brunt of DDoS reflection attacks last month, with 61 percent of the top attack destinations observed hitting Chinese-based systems, according to Nexusguard. Of the 21,845…
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Hackers infect MySQL servers with malware for DDoS attacks
Hackers are exploiting SQL injection flaws to infect MySQL database servers with a malware program that’s used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Security researchers from Symantec found…
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New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers
Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called…
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Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots
Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider…
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TalkTalk hack: 15-year-old boy arrested in Northern Ireland over DDoS attack
News stunned security experts who had assumed that Isis terrorists or major country had been behind the breach A boy of 15 has been arrested and questioned on suspicion…
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Thai govt website DDoSed as CAT customer data leaked
Faced with a wave of DDoS attacks, a horde of hackers claiming to be Anonymous and major data leaks from state-owned CAT Telecom all in protest of Thailand’s…
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TalkTalk DDoS Attack: Website hit by ‘significant’ breach
Police are investigating a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” on the TalkTalk website, the UK company says. The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million UK customers,…
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CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials
Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the company's…
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Attackers hijack CCTV cameras to launch DDoS attacks
Default and weak credentials on embedded devices can lead to powerful botnets We’ve reached a point that security researchers have long warned is coming: Insecure embedded devices connected…