Google Public DNS Server Spoofed for SNMP based DDoS Attack

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex, and, according to security experts, the next DDoS vector to be concerned about is SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol amplification attacks. Yesterday afternoon, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported...

Sony PlayStation Network Back Online Following DDoS

Sony Corporation took its online gaming platform, the PlayStation Network PSN, offline over the weekend in the face of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. As of Sunday, the company said the PSN is back online and that game play can resume. Sony is saying that it has seen no evidence of a...

Sony PlayStation Network Taken Down By DDoS Attack

It’s been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by...

Anonymous Group Takes Down Mossad's Website Over Gaza Conflict

The hacktivist group Anonymous has reportedly taken down the official website of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad against Israel’s military incursion in Gaza, which has resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties. The government of Israel has yet to comment on the Mossad hack attack. The...

17-year-old Arrested for Massive DDoS Attack on Norway’s Financial Sector

The Norwegian police have arrested and charged a 17-year-old for a massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack earlier this week that disabled the websites of major financial institutions and other businesses in the country. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is designed to sabotage,...

mojoportal - Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Net Portal Dynamic System <= 5.0 (register users) Denial of Service

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl Type|+ Register multiple users for Denial of Service Vendor url|+ www.npds.org Little description|+ NPDS Net Portal Dynamic System is a Frenchand now English ! GNU dynamic portal Solution|+ None official but you can add a visual confirmation if yo...

DNS Flood DDoS Attack Hit Video Gaming Industry with 90 Million Requests per Second

Hackers are leveraging large number of compromised machines a botnet network to carry out massive DNS Flood DDoS attack against a large Video Gaming Industry website, peaking above 110 Gbps. A US based security solutions provider Incapsula, is protecting a famous Video Gaming website from this hi...

Feedly and Evernote Hit by DDoS Attacks, Extortion Demands

Yesterday, the most popular RSS reader Feedly was down as a result of a large scale distributed-denial-of service DDoS attack carried by the cybercriminals to extort money. On Wednesday, the Feedly was temporarily unavailable for its users. Feedly posted details of the attack at 5:00 AM ET on its...

PointDNS Recovers from Massive DDoS Attack

PointDNS says most of its DNS servers are online again after a massive DDoS attack late last week took down the service provider. A post on the company’s Twitter account on Friday said the provider was adding nameservers and working with network providers to restore service to its customers. Many...

Anti-DDoS Services Abused to Carry Out DDoS Attack with 1.5 Billion Requests/Minute

Till Now the Internet was encountering the traditional Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks, where a large number of compromised systems use to flood servers with tremendous amount of bandwidth; but in past few months we have noticed massive change in the techniques of DDoS attack. Hackers...

Sohu video XSS vulnerability used by hackers Video the user is human flesh-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently availableDDoSprotection firm Incapsula revealed the World No. 2 7 large sites-Sohu oneXSScross-site scripting vulnerabilities become together large-scale botnetDDoSattack the source. ! 1 Pictures from the network The rapid development of Internet, Network Security has been called for...

UltraDNS Dealing with DDoS Attack

UPDATE – UltraDNS said it has mitigated a distributed denial of service DDoS attack for most of its customers after the service was held down for most of the day. “Currently, only customers utilizing a segment of UltraDNS Name Server addresses are experiencing resolution latency due to intermitte...

Exploiting Facebook Notes to Launch DDoS

The way Facebook Notes handles HTML image tags could could give an attacker the ability to launch distributed denial of service attacks against external sources, using the power of the massive network to amplify the attack. Facebook Notes is a sort of Tumblr-like internal blogging feature built...

Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers

Reading a 'Note' created by anyone on the Facebook could trick you automatically to do malicious attacks against others unknowingly. A Security researcher Chaman Thapa, also known as chr13 claims that the flaw resides in 'Notes' section of the most popular social networking site - Facebook, that...

HULK - Web Server DoS Tool

HULK is a web server denial of service tool DDoS Tool written for research purposes. It is designed to generate volumes of unique and obfuscated traffic at a webserver, bypassing caching engines and therefore hitting the server's direct resource pool. The Hulk Web server is a brainchild of Barry...

Researchers Uncover Interesting Browser-Based Botnet

Security researchers discovered an odd DDoS attack against several sites recently that relied on a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in a major video Web site and hijacked users’ browsers in order to flood the site with traffic. The attack on the unnamed site involved the use of...

Vulnerability in World Largest Video Site Turned Million of Visitors into DDoS Zombies

An application layer or 'layer 7' distributed denial of service DDoS attacks is one of the most complicated web attack that disguised to look like legitimate traffic but targets specific areas of a website, making it even more difficult to detect and mitigate. Just Yesterday Cloud-based security...

WordPress 3.8.1 /xmlrpc.php拒绝服务漏洞

WordPress是一款内容管理系统。 WordPress 3.8.1 /xmlrpc.php 文件有ping其他主机的功能，通过这个功能可以请求多个站点，DDOS攻击别的网站。 0 WordPress 3.8.1 目前没有详细解决方案提供： http://www.wordpress.org...

Basecamp Back Online After DDoS, Extortion

The project management console Basecamp is back online and its developers are in the process of restoring customers’ network access Tuesday after the service was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack Monday. The attack started at 8:46 a.m. CST yesterday and flooded the site wi...