DDoS-Happy ‘Bitcoin Baron’ Sentenced to Almost 2 Years in Jail

The Bitcoin Baron, a self-proclaimed vigilante responsible for DDoS attacks on civic networks in Madison, Wisc., San Marcos, Texas, and other sites in 2015, has been collared in Phoenix and sentenced to serve 20 months in prison. The conviction and sentencing is only for the former attack, in whi...

Axis cameras there are security flaws, three of the vulnerabilities can be taken over-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Network security company VDOO researchers recently discovered several vulnerabilities affect the Axis nearly 400 security cameras. From the network security company VDOO researchers on IOT devices conducted a study and found that the axis company manufacturing the camera of the presence of seven...

Bitcoin Baron Gets 20 Months in Prison for DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Randall Charles Tucker 23 from Arizona, who goes by the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin Baron Gets 20 Months in Prison for DDoS Attacks...

When It Comes To IoT Security, Liability Is Muddled

BOSTON—From hacked connected cars to power grids, the implications of IoT security issues seem to be getting graver – yet when it comes to pointing fingers for security troubles, many times victims don’t even know where to start. IoT experts said at the Security of Things Forum today said that a...

Summer SOTI - DDoS by the numbers

Time for a Change The State of the Internet / Security report has been the home for Akamai's research on DDoS, attack traffic and Internet threats for over three years. While the report has evolved and expanded its scope considerably over that time, the content and how it's presented have only se...

State of the Internet Summer 2018 Attack Spotlight: What You Need To Know

Earlier this year, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack in its history, fueled by a new reflector, memcached. The attack targeted one of our software clients and broke through the 1 Tbps threshold for the first time. Memcached was developed to act as a distributed memory caching system. Since...

Debian DSA-4218-1 : memcached - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in memcached, a high-performance memory object caching system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2017-9951 Daniel Shapira reported a heap-based buffer over-read in memcached resulting from an incomple...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4218-1] memcached security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4218-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 06, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4218-1] memcached security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4218-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 06, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Akamai Edge Security - Intelligent protection coming to a city near you!

Having knowledge and visibility is just as important as products and technology when it comes to detecting and combating the latest attacks on the Internet. At Akamai, we protect customers from many of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in the world, and we are launching a series of Akama...

IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases

Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don't take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe. A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari, that relies on default or weak credentials to hack insecure...

IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases

Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don't take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe. A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari , that relies on default or weak credentials to hack insecure...

Cloudflare Gets Transparent on DNS Resolver Outage

In a testament to transparency, Cloudflare has explained a 17-minute outage on its 1.1.1.1 resolver service last week: It was a glitch in its own systems, not a cyber-incident. The 1.1.1.1 service is a Domain Name System DNS resolver that matches up URLs say, “cloudflare.com” with their...

Liberapay: Missing back-end user input validation can lead to DOS flaw

Hello Team, Usually such kind of reports are out of scope, however I still would like to report you the business logic weakness that should be eliminated, at least from my point of view. Due to missing user input validation it is can lead to application unavailability. Details: During brief revie...

Moodle 3.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (May 2018) - Windows

Moodle CMS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:moodle:moodle"; ifdescription...

Moodle 3.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (May 2018) - Linux

Moodle CMS is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:moodle:moodle"; ifdescription...

15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer

By Waqas John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer...

CVE-2018-1137

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...

CVE-2018-1137

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. By substituting URLs in portfolios, users can instantiate any class. This can also be exploited by users who are logged in as guests to create a DDoS attack...