DDoS Attack on GitHub Linked to Earlier One Against GreatFire.org

The ongoing DDoS attack on GitHub, which has made the social coding site intermittently unresponsive since March 25, is essentially a side effect of an older operation from the Chinese government against a site run by the anti-censorship project GreatFire.org. Officials at GreatFire said that the...

DDoS Attack Against GitHub Continues After More Than Four Days

More than four days after it began, the massive DDoS attack on GitHub is still ongoing. The attack has evolved significantly since it started and GitHub officials said they believe that the goal of the operation is to force the site to remove some specific content. In the evening hours of March 2...

Threat warning: a lot of ubnt devices is Backdoor-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

This article elaborated: the discovery of a hacker attack, intrusion analysis, counter hack Server, successfully obtain permission and complete evidence of the whole process. Such an invasion is now also very much, especially for a specific system of orientation, but“blind scan”in the attack...

GitHub hit by Massive DDoS Attack From China

Github – a popular coding website used by programmers to collaborate on software development – was hit by a large-scale distributed denial of service DDoS attack for more than 24 hours late Thursday night. It seems like when users from outside countries visit different websites on the Internet th...

GitHub Hit With DDoS Attack

A large-scale DDoS attack, apparently emanating from China, has been hammering the servers at GitHub over the course of the last 12 hours, periodically causing service outages at the code-sharing and collaboration site. The attack appears to have begun around 2 AM UTC on Friday and has been going...

JVN#81094176: Android OS may behave as an open resolver

A device that runs as a DNS cache server, which responds to any recursive DNS queries that are received is referred to as an open resolver. Android OS contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver when the tethering function is enabled. Impact The Android device may be used in a DNS...

CloudFlare Aims to Defeat Massive DDoS Attacks with Virtual DNS

DDoS attacks have been a persistent problem for the the better part of 20 years, and as ISPs and enterprises have adjusted their defenses, attackers have adapted their tactics. One of the more effective tools in the attackers’ arsenal now is the use of botnets to generate massive numbers of DNS...

56 Hackers Arrested in Cyber Crime 'Strike Week' Raids in UK

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency NCA has arrested 56 suspected hackers in a campaign against cybercrime called "strike week." Law-enforcement officials conducted, in total, 25 separate operations across England, Scotland and Wales, and those arrested were suspected in a wide range of...

Vulnerability warning: the D-Link friends of the perbadanan Router the presence of a remote command injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently security researcher at D-Link friends of the perbadanan on the router discovered a serious security vulnerability, an attacker can remotely obtain device The maximum access to the Root, and hijacking DNS settings or on the device to execute arbitrary commands. As early as last 1 1 month,...

D-Link DIR636L Remote Command Injection Vulnerability

D-Link DIR636L suffers from a remote command injection vulnerability. SWISSCOM CSIRT SECURITY ADVISORY - http://www.swisscom.com/security CVE ID: CVE-2015-1187 Product: D-Link DIR636L Vendor: D-Link Subject: Remote Command Injection - Incorrect Authentication Effect: Remotely exploitable Author:...

D-Link Routers Haunted by Remote Command Injection Bug

Some D-Link routers contain a vulnerability that leaves them open to remote attacks that can give an attacker root access, allow DNS hijacking and other attacks. The vulnerability affects affects a number of D-Link’s home routers and the key details of the flaw have been made public by one of the...

DDoS Exploit Targets Open Source Rejetto HFS

Apparently no vulnerability is too small, no application too obscure, to escape a hacker’s notice. A honeypot run by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs research team recently snared an automated attack targeting users of the open source Rejetto HTTP File Server Rejetto HFS. Someone was trying to exploit a...

Komodia Website Under DDoS Attack

Komodia.com, home to the SSL interception module at the heart of the Superfish adware dustup, is currently under a distributed denial-of-service attack. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time, its home page had been replaced with a notice that the site was offline because it was under attack. “Some people say...

CrushFTP 7.2.0 Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

CrushFTP version 7.2.0 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities. ======================================================= I. Overview ======================================================== Multiple CSRF & Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerabilities have been...

Indexing the Dark Web One Hacking Forum At A Time

CANCUN–There are only so many ways to tip-toe around some of the Internet’s darker, seedier corners. Sites offering illegal drugs, DDoS for hire and other questionable merchandise are often laden with malware, hazardous to visit, and in turn, can be hard to fully get a grip on. But according to...

Hacktivist Group Anonymous (#OpISIS) Takes Down Islamic State (ISIS) Social Media Accounts

The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a massive cyber attack against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS — the radical Islamic terrorist group who were responsible for the terrorist attack against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. With huge social media presence,...

UFONet Open Redirect DDoS Attack

UFONet – is a tool designed to launch DDoS attacks against a target, using ‘Open Redirect’ vectors on third party web applications, like botnet. See this links for more info: CWE-601:Open Redirect OWASP:URL Redirector Abuse Installing UFONet UFONet runs on many platforms. It requires Python 2.x.y...

JVN#27142693: NP-BBRM vulnerable in UPnP functionality

NP-BBRM provided by I-O DATA DEVICE, INC. is a LAN router. NP-BBRM contains a vulnerability in the UPnP functionality. Impact The device may be used in a DDoS attack, as a SSDP reflector. Solution Disable UPnP Disable UPnP functionality from the management configuration in the settings screen...

How to detect NTP amplification attack vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

NTP vulnerabilities related articles in the Drops there have been, and more than one article, the reason for yet another translation of this article, but the article's overall idea is very good, hope to see this article help you. BTW: this translation is more casual, but did not destroy the...

LizardSquad DDoS Stresser Cross Site Scripting / Session Tampering

Document Title: =============== LizardSquad DDoS Stresser - Multiple Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1417...