Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook Discuss the Apple and Oracle Patches, Facebook Detecting Nation-State Attacks and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week: How Facebook will begin warning users of nation-state attacks, all the Apple and Oracle patches, and the latest attacks against the Network Time Protocol NTP. Download: newswrap10-23-15.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Code injection

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. SEIL Series routers SEIL/X1 2.50 through 4.62, SEIL/X2 2.50 through 4.62, SEIL/B1 2.50 through 4.62, and SEIL/x86 Fuji 1.70 through 3.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU and traffic consumption via a large number of NTP requests within a short...

High-Traffic Denial-of-Service Amplification Attacks Remain

It seems the exaggerated volume of bad traffic used in politically motivated DDoS attacks last year was not an isolated phenomenon. Distributed denial-of-service attacks that congest Internet connectivity and disrupt online services topped unprecedented levels in 2013, shoving aside stealthier...