Dyn DDoS Could Have Topped 1 Tbps

As more time passes, researchers are getting insight into the size and structure of the DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn last week, and the capabilities of the Mirai botnet. First, Dyn released a truncated post-mortem on the attack with admittedly some omissions as a law enforcement...

Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers

New research on the source of Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn indicates that script kiddies are likely responsible, rather than a politically motivated actor. Researchers at Flashpoint dismissed numerous claims of responsibility that separately linked the attack to the Russian...

Chinese Manufacturer Recalls IOT Gear Following Dyn DDoS

Hangzhou Xiongmai said that it will recall millions of cameras sold in the U.S. in response to Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn that kept a number of web-based services such as Twitter, Github and others offline for much of the day. The Chinese manufacturer sells OEM white-label...

An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today

A massive Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack against Dyn, a major domain name system DNS provider, broke large portions of the Internet on Friday, causing a significant outage to a ton of websites and services, including Twitter, GitHub, PayPal, Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, and Spotify. But ho...

Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Service Knocks Popular Sites Offline

UPDATE — How an army of million of hacked Internet-connected smart devices almost broke the Internet today. Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any service...

X (Formerly Twitter): Sub-Domain Takeover

Hey ! Your subdomain web.mopub.com is pointing to DYN but you have not claimed it on DYN end. So what happens here is actually that, since web.mopub.com is pointing to DYN, DYNis actually checking if there's a host with that name. Which in this case was not true. So I was able to claim the domain...

Debian DSA-2656-1 : bind9 - denial of service

Matthew Horsfall of Dyn, Inc. discovered that BIND, a DNS server, is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query to named that, when processed, would cause named to use an excessive amount of memory, or possibly crash...

CVE-2008-0385

SQL injection vulnerability in server/widgetallocator.php in Urulu 2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the connectionId parameter to index.php with 1 statprt/js/request or 2 dyn/js/request in the PATHINFO...

CVE-2008-0385

Urulu 2.1 contains a SQL injection in the connectionId parameter of index.php via PATH_INFO (statprt/js/request or dyn/js/request). The vulnerability allows remote attackers to extract data from the database, with potential for arbitrary code execution if the database user has FILE privileges (e....

Dyn CMS <= REleased (x_admindir) Remote File Inclusion Exploit

============================================================================================== Dyn CMS = REleased xadmindir Remote File Inclusion Exploit =============================================================================================== Critical Level : Dangerous Venedor site :...