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Have you heard about the new fake iPhone charging cable developed by security researcher Mike Grover which allows attackers to take over Linux, Mac and Windows computers as soon as they are plugged in? Learn more in this interesting PCMag article:
There isn’t an industry safe from data breaches. Frombanksand credit organizations to hotel and restaurant chains,academic institutions and more, hundreds of millions of individuals have had their personal information stolen – all via the companies with whom they do business.
A new variant of the Mirai botnet has been discovered which utilizes the Tor network to prevent command server takedowns or seizure.
In this article, Dave Dittrich discusses the buildup to his discovery of DDoS attacks 20 years ago.
I was inspired to start a series of articles on the early history of DDoS by a few recent events. Rik Farrow interviewed me for a forthcoming issue (Fall 2019 Vol. 44, No. 3) ofUsenix;login:magazine while I was also writing up ahistory of the early days of the Honeynet Project, which refreshed my memory on a number of events in 1999-2000. I also read this MIT Technology Review article on the 20th anniversary of the “first DDoS attack” on the University of Minnesota
It took me a little while to remember that July 22wasnotthe first of the three days that the University of Minnesota spent off-line from persistent flooding. That happened almost a month later. Nor was July 22 even thestart of the build upto that event. Now seemed like a good time to clarify this history.
Have you heard that hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service)?
BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said âitâs possible that this is the largest data leak in the history of the work of Russian special services on the Internet.â
The documents included descriptions of dozens of internal projects the company was working on, including ones on de-anonymization of users of the Tor browser and researching the vulnerability of torrents.
A new ransomware family has been found targeting Linux-based NAS devices made by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems and holding users' important data hostage until a ransom is paid.
