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Massive Gaming DDoS Exploits Widespread Technology
UPDATE Akamai Wednesday revealed that it’s witnessed the fourth-largest DDoS attack the company has ever encountered, leveraging a widespread and highly exploitable UDP amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. WSD—a consumer device network discovery and connectivity technology—was seen...
New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps
Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...
Devil's Ivy vulnerability(CVE-2017-9765)
When we began a security analysis of remote configuration services last year, we had no idea it would lead us to uncover vulnerabilities that affect so many users. We have been studying the prevalence and nature of the vulnerabilities that arise in remote configuration services, so when we...
Microsoft Web Services on Devices API Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (973565)
This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS09-063. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbms09-063.nasl 5364 2017-02-20 13:26:07Z cfi $ Microsoft Web Services on Devices API Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 973565 Authors: Madhuri D Copyright: Copyright c 2010...
