Bit-and-Piece DDoS Method Emerges to Torment ISPs

A pioneering distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack pattern has emerged, targeting internet service providers ISPs with something researchers have dubbed the bit-and-piece “Mongol” attack. The approach involves spreading out junk traffic across large numbers of IP addresses in order to evade...

USN-2255-1: OpenStack Neutron vulnerabilities

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Neutron did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Neutron, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. CVE-2013-6433 Stephen Ma and Christoph Thiel discovered that the...