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Critical denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities affecting Siemens industrial PLC devices used in thousands of industrial plants

In its latest security alert, Siemens announced the release of patches to address multiple critical vulnerabilities whose exploitation would allow some models of programmable logic controllers (PLC) to be remotely blocked. The company fixed a total of 27 vulnerabilities, three of which could be exploited by unauthenticated remote threat actors for the deployment of denial […]

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Denial of service condition interrupted power company operations in the U.S.

A denial-of-service condition arose in an electric company supplying energy to various states in the west of the United States; according to cybersecurity specialists, the incident was serious enough for the American energy authority to be notified. The cybersecurity incident generated disruptions in the operation of some electrical systems for more than 10 hours during […]

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10 Masterful Steps In Combating Denial Of Service Attacks

We could define DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks as the exclusive appropriation of a resource or service with the intention of avoiding any third party access. Also included in this definition are the attacks destined to collapse a resource or system with the intention of destroying the service or resource. DoS attacks are born […]

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WarChild – Denial Of Service Testing Suite Made For Analyzing

Warchild is a denial of service testing suite made for analyzing the strength of your website against different kinds of denial of service attacks you will be facing which are mainly organized by crooks to cause damage to your website. WarChild Installation For Installing the required modules just run the following command in your terminal […]

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SegmentSmack: TCP Flaw In Linux Kernel Could Trigger A Remote Denial Of Service

The Linux kernel has been hit with a TCL flaw that was recently discovered by security researcher Juha-Matti Tilli. Assigned CVE-2018-5390, this flaw could be exploited by malicious actors to trigger a resource exhaustion attack using an available open port. This flaw, named SegmentSmack by Red Hat, affects the Linux kernel 4.9 or above. The attacker could make expensive […]

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Denial of Service DDoS Attack Using Kali Linux

What is Distributed Denial of Service Attack(DDoS)? A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a system or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means and motives vary it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt a host connected to the Internet. This article reads on how to […]

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Linux Distributions Suffering with Denial of Service by systemd Vulnerability

A Linux Suffering from systemd(System and Service Manager) vulnerability that leads to performing a Denial of Service in many Linux based Distributions. Attacker Sending a DNS query to a DNS server by having a Vulnerable system eventually this vulnerability will exploit the Target Linux distribution systems. systemd is an init system used in Linux distributions to […]

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BROTHER PRINTERS SUSCEPTIBLE TO REMOTE DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS

Networked consumer and business printers manufactured and sold by Brother contain an unpatched vulnerability that can be abused by a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the device. Researchers at Trustwave’s SpiderLabs on Monday disclosed the issue after numerous fruitless attempts to contact Brother, including a live chat with a support person on Oct. 3, […]

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​Linux developers under denial of service attack

The Linux Plumbers Conference’s internet has been slowed to a crawl. SANTA FE, NM — If you can’t reach your favorite Linux developer by IM or e-mail today, it’s because they’re under a denial of service (DoS) attack. The top programmers are all at the Linux Plumbers conference, which is being hammered by an Internet […]

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Distributed Denial Of Service attacks has doubled over the last 12 months as per the Akamai’s second quarter 2016 state of the internet / security report

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report. The report, using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, highlights the cloud security landscape, specifically trends with DDoS and web application attacks, as well as malicious traffic […]

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Telephonic denial-of-service attacks, the new cybercriminal trend

A recent report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns public and private organizations about the risks of an attack variant known as telephonic denial of service (TDoS), a trend that has been showing steady growth for a couple of months. This is an automated attack launched with the only intention of collapsing a […]

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“Denial-of-Service Condition” Impacts US Energy Company

A “denial-of-service condition” has reportedly impacted a US energy company that provides power to many western states. TechCrunch reports, “An energy company providing power in several western U.S. states experienced a “denial-of-service condition” serious enough to warrant reporting it to the government’s energy authority.” The report, by TechCrunch security editor Zack Whittaker, further says that […]

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IIS Vulnerability Triggers a Denial-of-Service

Microsoft has recently rolled-out updates for addressing a vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS). Allegedly, this Microsoft IIS bug could cause a denial of service since the CPU usage rises to 100%. Microsoft IIS Bug Leading To DoS Microsoft has warned users of a serious security vulnerability targeting Internet Information Services (IIS). In its […]

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Lloyds Bank services hit by denial-of-service attack

Reports suggest a large-scale DDoS attack from overseas blocked Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland customers from accessing online services. International cyberattackers have targeted one of the UK’s largest banking groups with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), according to a press report, in an incident which disrupted online banking services for millions of customers for […]

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Cisco Patches Denial-of-Service, Bypass Vulnerabilities in IOS

Cisco pushed out on Wednesday its usual semiannual round of patches for IOS, the software the company uses for most of its routers and switches. This month’s security advisories addressed four vulnerabilities, three which could lead to denial of service situations, and another that could have let an attacker bypass user authentication. The bypass vulnerability […]

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