Telegram Suffers 'Powerful DDoS Attack' From China During Hong Kong Protests

Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack hit its servers. Telegram founder Pavel Durov later revealed that the attack was mainly coming from the...

Winny node information processing vulnerability

Overview Winny contains a vulnerability in the processing of node information. Winny is a P2P file sharing software. Winny contains a vulnerability in the processing of node information, which can be used to launch Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. Fuyumasa Takatsu of University of...