Cutting Through The Twitter DDoS Hype

There are a lot of theories flying around about why Twitter and other social media services got knocked offline yesterday. I’ve heard rumors about it being linked to political tension between Georgia and Russia. Others blame Iran for the outages. I’m not a political commentator, therefore I canno...

DDoS Attacks Ongoing Against FTC, Other Sites

It looks like the distributed denial-of-service attack, once the favorite tactic of script kiddies and professional hackers alike, is coming back into favor. Attackers have been conducting an ongoing DDoS attack against the Federal Trade Commission’s main site, as well as some other government...

Security Guard Allegedly Hacked Patient Records, HVAC System at Hospital

From DarkReading Kelly Jackson Higgins A former security guard for a Dallas hospital has been arrested by federal authorities for allegedly breaking into the facility’s HVAC and confidential patient information computer systems. In a bizarre twist, he posted videos of his hacks on YouTube, and wa...

[Full-disclosure] POWER PHLOGGER v.2.2.5 (username) SQL Injection

POWER PHLOGGER v.2.2.5 username SQL Injection Author: Attila Gerendi Darkz Date: June 25, 2007 Package: POWER PHLOGGER http://www.phpee.com/ Versions Affected: v.2.2.5 Other versions may also be affected Severity: SQL Injection Description: Input passed to the "username" parameter in "login.php"...

POWER PHLOGGER v.2.2.5 (username) SQL Injection

POWER PHLOGGER v.2.2.5 username SQL Injection Author: Attila Gerendi Darkz Date: December 20, 2005 Package: POWER PHLOGGER http://www.phpee.com/ Versions Affected: v.2.2.5 Other versions may also be affected Severity: SQL Injection Description: Input passed to the "username" parameter in...

On the Windows System to achieve the DDOS attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First said we used to attack the client and server method of configuration, using the moment the most famous of REDHAT LINUX for testing, the present attack test I'm using FEDORA CORE3, the software is the most famousDDOSattack tool TFN2K LINUX Edition, is to attack the WINDOWS Server system is...

Distributed reflection: a new generation of DDoS attacks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Original:Steve Gibson www.grc.com Translation:useless Jun www.isfocus.com Translator's note: A few days ago received a friend sent this article,but quite interesting,so the translation came out. Because time is relatively tight,I only translated the principles and the defense portion,the front...

Using the WebShell to achieve DDOS attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Believe some black friends haven't playedDDOSit, whether WebShell lot, you know WebShell also able to achieve a DDdos? Know the big scare, don't watch, this is the rookie tutorial lonely sword Saint not a hacker master, can only write newbie tutorials! in. First you the WebShell to be uploaded fi...

Build simple hidden crazy ddos attack tools-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

xdos attack effect is better, but we have to do is let him as the leader of the zombies above, put in a lot of meat on the chicken run, auto-attack the target server. xdos to run a cmd window, we can use delphi to write a small program to let him hide the window, and to achieve a boot from the...

Net Portal Dynamic System 5.0 - Register Users Denial of Service

!/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 you like php ; Worked on|+ Last...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postfix (MDKSA-2003:081)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the postfix MTA by Michal Zalewski. Versions prior to 1.1.12 would allow an attacker to bounce- scan private networks or use the daemon as a DDoS Distributed Denial of Service tool by forcing the daemon to connect to an arbitrary service at an arbitrary IP...

Master Servers: yet another DDoS...

Yeah, seems that DDoS attacks will never die and in these months seems that every game can be used for launch DDoS attacks... This time I want to show a problem that, for me, is very obvious but I have not found any reference to it on Internet. The following is my advisory about the problem:...

GameSpy 3D Based Games Spoofed UDP Response Amplification DDoS

The remote host is running a GameSpy server. This service is used to host a gaming server. Since it uses UDP as its transport layer and sends multiple UDP packets in response to one request, an attacker can abuse it to flood a third-party host with traffic by sending a spoofed UDP packet with the...

UT DDoS risk

Application: Unreal Tournament Win version, Linux and Mac not tested Version: all the version 436 vulnerable too Bug: UT servers send a great number of packets to every host that send only 1 packet to them, for 2 min and 30 sec Risk: UT servers used as flooders, DDoS risk Author: Auriemma Luigi...

ISS Security Alert: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Universal Plug and Play Service

Internet Security Systems Security Alert December 20, 2001 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Universal Plug and Play Service Synopsis: ISS X-Force is aware of multiple vulnerabilities with the Universal Plug and Play Service UPnP included with several Microsoft Windows operating systems. UPnP is a...

CVE-2001-0566

CVE-2001-0566 affects Cisco Catalyst 2900XL switches. A remote attacker can cause a denial-of-service by sending an empty UDP packet to UDP port 161 (SNMP) when SNMP is disabled. The vulnerability is tied to handling of unsolicited SNMP traffic even with SNMP disabled, leading to partial availabi...

CVE-2000-0138

CVE-2000-0138 is associated with systems infected by DDoS control tools (master/agent/zombie) such as Trinoo, TFN/TFN2K, stacheldraht, mstream, and shaft. The Connected documents show multiple Nessus plugin detections (e.g., Trinity v3, mstream, Shaft, Trin00) reporting a compromised host running...

CVE-2000-0138

A system has a distributed denial of service DDOS attack master, agent, or zombie installed, such as 1 Trinoo, 2 Tribe Flood Network TFN, 3 Tribe Flood Network 2000 TFN2K, 4 stacheldraht, 5 mstream, or 6 shaft...