New Call to Regulate IoT Security By Design

A Washington, D.C. think tank whose mission is critical infrastructure security has joined the call for lawmakers to consider regulating the security of connected devices. In a report published this week, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology pinned the blame for a rash of Mirai...

DDoS Attack Takes Down Central Heating System Amidst Winter In Finland

Just Imaging — What if, you enter into your home from a chilling weather outside, and the heating system fails to work because of a cyber attack, leaving you in the sense of panic? The same happened late last month when an attack knocks heating system offline in Finland. Last week, a Distributed...

Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country

Note — We have published an updated article on what really happened behind the alleged DDoS attack against Liberia using Mirai botnet. Someone is trying to take down the whole Internet of a country, and partially succeeded, by launching massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks using a...

IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets

The IoT botnet behind some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic, generating more than one million requests per second in some cases, in order to bring down web applications. The attacks were recorded prior to the release of the source code fuelin...

LizardStresser IoT Botnets Part of 400Gbps DDoS Attacks

LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response...

Multiple DVR Devices Multiple Vulnerabilities (Feb 2016)

Multiple Digital Video Recorder DVR devices are prone to authentication bypass and remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Copyright C 2016 SCHUTZWERK GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Backdoor in ScreenOS (Telnet)

ScreenOS is vulnerable to an unauthorized remote administrative access to the device over SSH or telnet. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Backdoor in ScreenOS (SSH)

ScreenOS is vulnerable to an unauthorized remote administrative access to the device over SSH or telnet. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Multiple Security issues with ScreenOS (JSA10713)

ScreenOS is vulnerable to an unauthorized remote administrative access to the device over SSH or telnet and to unauthorized decrypting of VPN traffic SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respectiv...

Netgear DGN Devices Authentication Bypass/RCE Vulnerability (Jun 2013) - Active Check

Netgear DGN devices are prone to an authentication bypass and a remote command execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

D-Link DIR-300 / DIR-600 RCE Vulnerabilities (Feb 2013) - Active Check

D-Link DIR-300 and DIR-600 devices are prone to a remote code execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only nb:...