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A researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol daemon that could crash a server with a single, malformed packet. The Network Time Foundation’s NTP Project on Monday patched the bug and nine others with the release of NTP 4.2.8p9. The vulnerability affected NTP 4.2.7p22 up to NTP 4.2.8p9, […]
Short Bytes: Arbor Networks has published the statistics of the DDoS attacks in the first half of 2016. The largest one went up to 579Gbps. An interactive map shows the DDoS attacks made on a global level. Piracy and Cyber Attacks are two of the major concerns the world has been facing. We told you […]
Sharon Goldberg remembers the cold February day when her Boston University PhD candidate Aanchal Malhotra was studying routing security, in particular, attacks against the resource public key infrastructure (RPKI)—and kept hitting a dead end because of a cache-flushing issue. The resourceful Malhotra decided to roll back the time on her computer as a last-ditch effort, […]