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Tag Archives: DDoS
Dyn Down by DDoS
Dyn a company that provides dynamic domain name resolution (convert names into IP addresses) was threatened to shell out some bitcoin or else… Or else what? I’d like to call it an availability compromise, but in layman’s terms, an outage … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Brian Krebs, cyber risk, DDoS, dos, Dyn, hackers, hacking, Internet of Things, knock-knock, Mirai, NCSAM, reddit, robot, rosie, Security Awareness, spotify, twitter
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The Largest Distributed Denial of Service, EVER! (A Robot Knock-Knock Description)
Denial of Service explained: Computers respond to network traffic, generally. If there was a computer on my network that wanted to talk to my computer, that computer would put out a request to talk to my computer over the network, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Brian Krebs, cyber risk, DDoS, dos, hackers, hacking, Internet of Things, knock-knock, Mirai, NCSAM, robot, rosie, Security Awareness
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ISIS Hackers or Incompetent Password Management?
11 television stations went off the air; websites and social media were defaced; and an internal IT outage for TV5 in Paris, France. The websites were taken over with pro-messages of the CyberCaliphate, the same group who either DDoS’ed or defaced … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercaliphate, DDoS, defacement, malware, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, TV5
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China’s Internet Cannon!?
The Internet Cannon that China is touting is a technology most hackers have been using since 2010. LOIC, or the Low Orbiting Ion Cannon, is a DDoS tool. It was originally just a stress testing tool, then was converted to … Continue reading
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Tagged China, DDoS, dos, Internet Cannon
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19,000 French Websites Either Defaced or DDoS’ed
Since the three day terror attack that started in France on January 7 with the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 19,000 websites of French-based companies have been targeted by cyber attackers. Defacements had the message: ‘The Islamic State Stay … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cyber caliphate, DDoS, Death to Charlie, Death to France, Fallaga team, Free Palestine, Middle East Cyber Army, The Islamic State Stay Inchallah
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WOPBOT BotNet
A botnet runs on Linux and Linux variant servers, named wopbot that uses the Bash Shellshock bug to auto-infect others. The wopbot botnet is active and scanning the internet for vulnerable systems, including network ranges at the United States Department … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, apache, bash shell, botnets, DDoS, hackers, hacking, Linux, network security, shellshock, wopbot
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The Norse Hacking Map
At this link, you can watch the world hacking map, hosted by Norse. Apparently back in 2012, the United States was getting attacked at least 10,000,000 times a day. Can you imagine what it is now? 20 million? 40 million? … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, DDoS, dos, hacking, map, Security Awareness
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The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IOT) is a concept of delivering Internet to almost anything that has a chip in it. Cool for the end user, but for the cybersecurity minded person, an inevitable nightmare. In January, a refrigerator was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, DDoS, home appliances, Internet of Things, Refrigerator
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400Gbps DDoS using NTP
Amplification attacks using NTP are on the rise. The UDP-based protocol can use a small request and cause a heavy payload response. CloudFlare has done an outstanding job explaining how the following picture is possible. Read about it here on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Amplification Attack, cloudflare, DDoS, ntp, udp
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