602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of th...

Linode Customer Password Reset, DDoS Attack

Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes as it continues to battle a distributed denial-of-service attack that began on Christmas. A Linode...

Chinese Hackers tried to Take Down Tibetan Social Networking Website

Tibet is an area in the Republic of China that has been the point of conflict for many years in China. While China believes that Tibet has been under Chinese rule for many centuries, Tibetans claim that they declared itself an independent republic in 1912. Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy...

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers. Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS Domain Name System Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping...

ProtonMail Back Online Following Six Day DDoS Attack

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is back online today following a crippling six-day attack that saw the company’s ISPs and data centers under siege. Operators behind the service said the site may not always be reachable, as its servers are still under heavy strain and mitigating attack, and tha...

TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom of CEO Dido Harding

Update The U.K.’s Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit this afternoon arrested a 15-year-old Northern Ireland boy in connection with the TalkTalk hack. The teen is alleged to have violated the Computer Misuse Act, a police statement said. He is being questioned at the County Antrim police station...

New Botnet Hunts for Linux — Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps

A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service DDoS attacks of over 150 gigabits per second Gbps. The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20...

JavaScript-Based DDoS Peaks at 275,000 Requests Per Second

Two years ago at the Black Hat conference, WhiteHat Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen explained how hackers could in theory leverage an online ad network to distribute malicious JavaScript efficiently and quickly. Depending on how much money the attacker wanted to spend, th...

BitTorrent Fixes Reflective DDoS Attack Security Flaw

Two weeks ago, we reported how a serious flaw in the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent file sharing protocols could be exploited to carry out a devastating distributed denial of service DDoS attack, allowing lone hackers with limited resources to take down large websites. Good news is that the...

GitHub Again Hit by DDoS Cyberattack

Github – the popular code sharing website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – again became a victim of a distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attack on Tuesday morning. The attack came just a few months after the popular code repository website GitHub suffered a massive DDo...

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack

Code repository Github mitigated a distributed denial-of-service attack, restoring services this morning around 9 a.m. Eastern time. According to a Github status log, connectivity problems began today around 5:30 a.m. with Github declaring it was under a DDoS attack an hour later. A request for...

JVN#17964918: Multiple I-O DATA LAN routers vulnerable in UPnP functionality

A wired LAN router NP-BBRS and a wireless LAN router WN-G54/R2 provided by I-O DATA DEVICE, INC. contain a vulnerability in the UPnP functionality. Impact The device may be used in a DDoS attack, as a SSDP reflector. Solution For NP-BBRS: Do not use NP-BBRS The developer has stated that the suppo...

NTPD - MON_GETLIST Query Amplification Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/perl ntp MONGETLIST query amplification ddos Copyright 2015 c Todor Donev [email protected] http://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg A Network Time Protocol NTP Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS that relies...

TRAI leaked Over Million Email Addresses; Anonymous India takes Revenge

The official website of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI has been allegedly hacked just hours after the site exposed more than 1 Million email addresses of users who spoke in support of Net Neutrality. A hackers collective, calls itself AnonOpsIndia, has claimed responsibility for t...

Google Provides Detailed Analysis of GitHub Attack Traffic

The high-profile DDoS attack against GitHub that went on for several days last month was the end result of an operation that included several phases and extensive testing and optimization by the attackers. Researchers at Google analyzed the attack traffic over several weeks and found that the...

China Using A Powerful 'Great Cannon' Weapon to Censor The Internet

China has something very impressive that we are not aware of. The country has a powerful and previously unknown weapon that its government is using to bolster their cyber attack capabilities: Dubbed "The Great Cannon." INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN CHINA When I talk about Internet censorship, it is...

Watch the video to understand Web application security vulnerabilities TOP 10 IBM internal Video-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Accompanied by more and more application development, Web also seems to carry more features, such as the Google Office Suite, Google Docs, a calculator, e-mail, storage space, maps, weather and news, etc... And all this is based on meeting our life's daily needs. Now, we The phone if you can no...

IBM Outs Dyre Wolf Campaign Steals $1 Million

The Dyre banking Trojan‘s ascension to the top of the financial malware food chain took a massive leap forward in the first three months of 2015. Already spreading a damaging piece of malware that targets corporate bank accounts, the Eastern European keepers of Dyre recently upped their social...

DDoS Attack on GitHub Linked to Earlier One Against GreatFire.org

The ongoing DDoS attack on GitHub, which has made the social coding site intermittently unresponsive since March 25, is essentially a side effect of an older operation from the Chinese government against a site run by the anti-censorship project GreatFire.org. Officials at GreatFire said that the...

GitHub hit by Massive DDoS Attack From China

Github – a popular coding website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – was hit by a large-scale distributed denial of service DDoS attack for more than 24 hours late Thursday night. It seems like when users from outside countries visit different websites on the Internet th...