Juniper Networks announced patches for a serious vulnerability in the handling of IPv6 packets that is says could leave its Junos OS and JUNOSe routers open to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Tag Archives: Hacks
Misuse of Language: ‘Cyber’; When War is Not a War, and a Weapon is Not a Weapon
In this Threatpost op-ed, Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter discuss the imprecision in language surrounding “cyber war” and “cyber weapons,” and explain how this may contribute to bad law and policy.
Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam
Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on a Nigerian Business Email Compromise scam called “wire-wire”, or “waya-waya.”
Fixing ‘This Internet’ Before It Breaks Again
Dan Kaminsky advocates fixing today’s internet before it breaks the same way it did in the 1990s.
New Technique Checks Mitigation Bypasses Earlier
Researchers at Endgame are expected at Black Hat to introduce Hardware Assisted Control Flow Integrity (HA-CFI), which leverages features in the micro-architecture of Intel processors for security.
WPAD Flaws Leak HTTPS URLs
Sniffing HTTPS URLs with malicious PAC files gets easier with a new technique that exploits flaws in the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol.
White House Beefs Up Cyber Threat Response Action Plan
A new White House directive outlines the U.S. cyber threat response strategy along with issuing a color-coded cyber threat schema.
Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers
Kaspersky Lab researchers participated in a Reddit AMA, touching on topics such as attack attribution, critical infrastructure security, attacker and researcher tradecraft, and the shortage of security talent.
Public, Private Sector Team to Fight Ransomware
Security firms and law enforcement launch No More Ransom, a web-based effort dedicated to ransomware awareness and decryption tools.
PornHub Hack Earns Researchers $22,000
Researchers found a serious vulnerability in PHP code that could have allowed hackers to gain access to porn site’s private user data.