Dutch Police Arrest 16-Year-Old for Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a 16-year-old hacker involved in the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on the websites of MasterCard and PayPal. The Dutch National Prosecutors Office reported that the teen, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested by a high-tech crime team last night. The arrest...

Microsoft MSDTC TIP Distributed Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Description The Microsoft MSDTC Microsoft Distribution Transaction Coordinator service is prone to a vulnerability that may permit denial of service attacks against the service or facilitate distributed denial of service attacks against other computers. The vulnerability exists in the TIP...

IRC Bot Detection

This host seems to be running an ident server, but before any request is sent, the server gives an answer about a connection to port 6667. It is very likely this system has been compromised by an IRC bot and is now a 'zombie' that can participate in 'distributed denial of service' DDoS attacks...

Postfix 1.1.x - Denial of Service (1)

Postfix 1.1.x - Denial of Service 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8333/info Debian has reported two vulnerabilities in the Postfix mail transfer agent. The first vulnerability, CAN-2003-0468, can allow for an adversary to "bounce-scan" a private network. It has also been reported...

Multiple Remote Windows XP/ME/98 Vulnerabilities

Multiple Remote Windows XP/ME/98 Vulnerabilities Release Date: 12/20/01 Severity: High Systems Affected: Microsoft Windows XP All default systems Microsoft Windows 98 Certain configurations Microsoft Windows 98SE Certain configurations Microsoft Windows ME Certain configurations Description:...

Trinity v3 Trojan Detection

The remote host appears to be running Trinity v3, a Trojan Horse that can be used to control your system or make it attack another network this is actually called a Distributed Denial Of Service attack tool. It is very likely that this host has been compromised C Tenable Network Security, Inc...