PsyBNC 2.3 Oversized Passwords Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570/info PsyBNC is a freely available, open source IRC bouncing server. It is available for the UNIX and Linux operating systems. Under some circumstances, it is possible for a remote user to crash a vulnerable server...

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...

hMailServer 5.3.3 IMAP Remote Crash PoC

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: hMailServer 5.3.3 IMAP Remote Crash PoC Date: 10/27/2012 Vendor Homepage: http://hmailserver.com Software Link: http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=backgrounddownloadfile&downloadid=207 Version: hMailServer 5.3.3 - Build 1879 Tested on: -...

Dramatic Drop in Vulnerable NTP Servers Used in DDoS Attacks

While patching of webservers vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug may have stalled, the same cannot be said about repairs to NTP servers that could be leveraged in devastating amplification attacks. A spate of distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS tore through companies in January and...

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...

Largest DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website

Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too. Recently, the...

Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation

A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...

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...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...

Vulnerabilities in 'All in One SEO Pack' Wordpress Plugin Put Millions of Sites At Risk

Multiple Serious vulnerabilities have been discovered in the most famous ‘All In One SEO Pack’ plugin for WordPress, that put millions of Wordpress websites at risk. WordPress is easy to setup and use, that’s why large number of people like it. But if you or your company is using ‘All in One SEO...

SNMP Reflection DDoS Attacks on the Rise

The DDoS techniques have massively increased with the attackers becoming more skillful at working around the network security. A massive 300Gbps DDoS attack launched against Spamhaus website almost broke the Internet a year ago and also earlier this year, hackers have succeeded in reaching new...

FBI Arrests 100 Hackers linked to Blackshades Malware

On Friday, we reported about the large-scale operation of International raids launched by the FBI and other law enforcement officials in countries around the world to arrest the targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool RAT called ‘Blackshades,’ which is designed to take over the...

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...

Regulators Planning Cybersecurity Assessments for Banks

A government agency in charge of developing standards for the nation’s banks announced last week that it will work harder to try to identify vulnerabilities in smaller community banks and that it’s planning to better raise awareness when it comes to cyber threats. The Federal Financial Institutio...

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...

STRUTS2 S2-0 2 0 patch bypass vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×0 0 background Security researchers noted that the Apache Struts2 vulnerability Bulletin S2-0 2 0, in process repair CVE-2 0 1 4-0 0 9 4 bug fixes program vulnerability exists, resulting patch is completely bypassed. 0×0 1 Analysis Struts2 S2-0 2 0 was added .\.|^ class\.. to filter action...

New vulnerabilities in Google Maps plugin for Joomla

Hello 3APA3A! Last year I wrote about multiple vulnerabilities in Google Maps plugin. After my informing the developer fixed them, but this year I found new vulnerabilities. These are Denial of Service and Insufficient Anti-automation vulnerabilities in Google Maps plugin for Joomla...

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...

Volume of NTP Amplification Attacks Getting Louder

No security arena is better representative of the cat and mouse game between hackers and defenders than DDoS attacks and prevention/mitigation. Enterprises and service providers have invested heavily in DDoS mitigations in order to keep critical services available. That’s forced hackers to crank ...