MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers Two days before Anonymous declare that MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous via twitter. It was shortly after MasterCard went down that someone on Twitter, known as ibomhacktivist, promoted "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!...

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers Two days before Anonymous declare that MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous via twitter. It was shortly after MasterCard went down that someone on Twitter, known as ibomhacktivist, promoted "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!...

ISP Outage, Not Hackers, Take Down MasterCard's Site

UPDATE: An Internet Service Provider outage, not hackers, was to blame for the unavailability of MasterCard’s website early Tuesday morning according to a statement from a company spokesman. “We can confirm that MasterCard’s corporate, public-facing website experienced intermittent service...

Sony CEO Apologizes to Fans and Partners at E3

Sony Computer Entertainment of America’s President and CEO, Jack Tretton kicked off his company’s E3 conference appearance with an apology to all those affected by the outage that has plagued Sony for better part of the last two months. Tretton started his speech by addressing what he referred to...

CVE-2009-4008

Unbound before 1.4.4 does not send responses for signed zones after mishandling an unspecified query, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service DNSSEC outage via a crafted query...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4008

Unbound before 1.4.4 does not send responses for signed zones after mishandling an unspecified query, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service DNSSEC outage via a crafted query...

CVE-2009-4008

CVE-2009-4008 affects Unbound up to version 1.4.3 (pre-1.4.4) and causes a DNSSEC outage DoS. A remote attacker can trigger the issue by sending a crafted query, leading Unbound to stop sending responses for signed zones. Public references in the connected documents confirm the affected product (...

13th Friday, Everything Down : Twitter ,You tube & Blogger !

13th Friday, Everything Down : Twitter ,You tube & Blogger ! Twitter is down and fail whales abound. Some users have experienced problems loading the service since about 1:30 ET. Twitter announced that it is aware of the situation on its status log: "We are currently experiencing site stability...

PlayStation Network Down Following 'External Intrusion'

Sony’s online gaming platform, The PlayStation Network PSN, continued a five day outage on Monday after what the company described as an “attack” on its network knocked PSN offline on April 20. And hope is fading for a fast resolution, with Sony saying it is revamping the network to make it more...

Amazon Web Service Down, No Timeline for Remedy

Amazon Web Service’s AWS Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and question and answer site and TechCrunch darling, Quora.The Web hosting firm’s Relational Database Service...

CVE-2011-1155

The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service rotation outage via a 1 \n newline or 2 \ backslash character in a log filename, as demonstrated by a filename that is automatically constructed on the basis ...

Design/Logic Flaw

The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service rotation outage via a 1 \n newline or 2 \ backslash character in a log filename, as demonstrated by a filename that is automatically constructed on the basis ...

CVE-2011-1155

The writeState function in logrotate.c in logrotate 3.7.9 and earlier might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service rotation outage via a 1 \n newline or 2 \ backslash character in a log filename, as demonstrated by a filename that is automatically constructed on the basis ...

CVE-2008-7280

Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm in PostmasterPOP3.pl in Open Ticket Request System OTRS before 2.2.7 does not properly handle e-mail messages containing malformed UTF-8 characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service e-mail retrieval outage via a crafted message...

CVE-2008-7280

Affected product: Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) prior to 2.2.7. Component: Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm in PostmasterPOP3.pl. Description of issue: Malformed UTF-8 handling in the email parsing logic can be triggered by crafted messages, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service ...

CVE-2011-1316

CVE-2011-1316 affects IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) SIP Proxy in the HTTP Transport, where sending a flood of UDP messages can exhaust worker threads and cause UDP messaging outage, leading to a DoS condition. Vulnerable: WAS versions before 7.0.0.15. Red Hat and OpenVAS entries corrobor...

CVE-2011-0388

Cisco TelePresence Recording Server devices with software 1.6.x and Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch CTMS devices with software 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 1.5.x, and 1.6.x do not properly restrict remote access to the Java servlet RMI interface, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

Directory traversal

The setup scripts in 389 Directory Server 1.2.x aka Red Hat Directory Server 8.2.x, when multiple unprivileged instances are configured, use 0777 permissions for the /var/run/dirsrv directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon outage or arbitrary process termination by...

CVE-2011-1067

slapd aka ns-slapd in 389 Directory Server before 1.2.8.a2 does not properly manage the ctimelimit field of the connection table element, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon outage via Simple Paged Results connections, as demonstrated by using multiple processes to...

Egypt Shut Down Net With Big Switch, Not Phone Calls !

The Egyptian government shut down most of its country's internet not by phoning ISPs one at a time, but by simply throwing a switch in a crucial data center in Cairo. That according to a February presentation to the Department of Homeland Security's Infosec Technology Transition Council. The...