[ad] A fairly serious flaw that was announced in October 2008 by Outpost24 (and apparently discovered way back in 2005), has finally been patched by the major players Cisco and Microsoft. So far Redhat has offered a workaround for the flaw and Juniper has responded that their equipment is not vulnerable. It could be that […]
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DNS DDoS Attack Takes Down China Internet
[ad] The latest news is a few million Chinese Internet users had trouble accessing any websites yesterday due to a DDoS attack on the DNS system from one of the countries registrars. It just shows that China has an inherently weak infrastructure if such a large portion of people can be disrupted with an attack […]
Kyrgyzstan Taken Offline by Huge Denial of Service Attack
[ad] Isn’t it amazing in this day and age an entire country can be knocked offline by Denial of Service attacks! You’d have though it wouldn’t happen any more. I do remember the days when it was fairly easy to take one of the smaller ISPs out in UK, so I guess the infrastructure of […]
TimeWarner DNS Hijacking IRC Servers to Stop DDoS Attacks
[ad] An interesting happening this week, some ISP’s have been jacking the DNS entries for certain IRC networks to crack down on zombie/bot infections. Is it ethical? Should they be doing this to their users? I first got wind of this from a post on Full Disclosure mailing list from an IRC network administrator. You […]
Hackers Attack Root Servers and Slow Internet Key Traffic
[ad] Well at least it shows the Internet is not very susceptible to such attacks due to its distributed nature, even if the root nameservers are down, the DNS system still functions. This was a pretty heavy attack though and the most significant in the past 5 years or so, someone testing their ego I […]