Glaring Vulnerabilities Make Many Commercial Drones 'Insecure by Design'

Drones, many readily available on ecommerce shops such as Amazon, are plagued by vulnerabilities that could give attackers full root access to the device, read or delete files, or crash the device. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT published a warning about one model, th...

DDoS Attacks Can Cost Businesses Up to $2.5M Per Attack, Report Says

The time to respond and mitigate DDoS attacks can be costly for companies, and some businesses can lose roughly $2.5 million on average per attack, a research report released today said. Neustar, an analytics firm that sees swathes of DDoS attack telemetry daily, boiled down some of the figures i...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : ntp (EulerOS-SA-2017-1023)

According to the versions of the ntp packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that when ntp is configured with rate limiting for all associations the limits are also applied to responses received from its...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ntp (EulerOS-SA-2017-1024)

According to the versions of the ntp packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that when ntp is configured with rate limiting for all associations the limits are also applied to responses received from its...

Low Risk Threat: DDoS Extortion Letters

Summary Adversaries calling themselves the Lizard Squad have been sending businesses extortion letters, demanding payment in bitcoin to prevent a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS or other attack against their applications. These letters have been sent to businesses across the globe and across...

The Time Has Arrived to Embrace Hackers

BOSTON—More than ever, hackers are getting a welcoming embrace from law enforcement, governments and business. Bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure programs are becoming the norm across industry, and hackers are no longer universally viewed as a pariah. Simultaneously, however, groups such a...

Hajime ‘Vigilante Botnet’ Growing Rapidly; Hijacks 300,000 IoT Devices Worldwide

Last week, we reported about a so-called 'vigilante hacker' who hacked into at least 10,000 vulnerable 'Internet of Things' devices, such as home routers and Internet-connected cameras, using a botnet malware in order to supposedly secure them. Now, that vigilante hacker has already trapped rough...

Beware! New Android Malware Infected 2 Million Google Play Store Users

Initially thought to be 600,000 users, the number of Android users who have mistakenly downloaded and installed malware on their devices straight from Google Play Store has reached 2 Million. Yes, about 2 Million Android users have fallen victim to malware hidden in over 40 fake companion guide...

UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service

A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to "Titanium Stresser," a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and individual Internet users. Adam Mudd...

To Protect Your Devices, A Hacker Wants to Hack You Before Someone Else Does

It should be noted that hacking a system for unauthorised access that does not belong to you is an illegal practice, no matter what's the actual intention behind it. Now I am pointing out this because reportedly someone, who has been labeled as a 'vigilante hacker' by media, is hacking into...

CVE-2016-8798

Huawei USG5500 with software V300R001C00 and V300R001C00 allows attackers to bypass the anti-DDoS module of the USGs to cause a denial of service condition on the backend server...

Design/Logic Flaw

Huawei USG5500 with software V300R001C00 and V300R001C00 allows attackers to bypass the anti-DDoS module of the USGs to cause a denial of service condition on the backend server...

CVE-2016-8798

CVE-2016-8798 affects Huawei USG5500 devices. The vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the anti-DDoS module, enabling a denial-of-service condition on the backend server. Affected software versions are V300R001C00 (and related build series mentioned in sources). The issue stems from a defen...

CVE-2016-8798

Huawei USG5500 with software V300R001C00 and V300R001C00 allows attackers to bypass the anti-DDoS module of the USGs to cause a denial of service condition on the backend server...

Over 85% Of Smart TVs Can Be Hacked Remotely Using Broadcasting Signals

The Internet-connected devices are growing at an exponential rate, and so are threats to them. Due to the insecure implementation, a majority of Internet-connected embedded devices, including Smart TVs, Refrigerators, Microwaves, Security Cameras, and printers, are routinely being hacked and used...

New Mirai Variant Roars into Action With 54 Hour DDoS Attacks

A variant of the Mirai malware pummeled a U.S. college last month with a marathon 54-hour long attack. Researchers say this latest Mirai variant is a more potent version of the notorious Mirai malware that made headlines in October, targeting DNS provider Dyn and the Krebs on Security website. Th...

Open Source Smart Gateway: FalconGate

Open Source Smart Gateway Cyber attacks are on the raise. Hacker and cyber criminals are continuously improving their methods and building new tools and Malware with the purpose of hacking your network, spying on you and stealing valuable data. Recently a new business model has become popular amo...

DDoS of Past, Present and Future

The pervasiveness of technology has meant automation of tasks, allowing better productivity, with more time to do more. However, the dark side of technology would be that enterprises and individuals alike are vulnerable to cybercrimes, compromise of identities, loss of data and subject to malicio...

Google, Jigsaw Partner on Free Tools to Secure Elections

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw announced on Tuesday that it and Google would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections. The announcement was fresh off a tense House Intelligence Committee meeting on Monday during which FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the burea...

BGP Swiss Army Knife: ExaBGP

ExaBGP provides a convenient way to implement Software Defined Networking by transforming BGP messages into friendly plain text or JSON, which can then be easily handled by simple scripts or your BSS/OSS. It is routinely used to improve service resilience and provide protection against network or...