Over 100,000 devices can be used to amplify DDoS attacks via multicast DNS
Over 100,000 devices have a misconfigured service called multicast DNS that accepts requests from the Internet and can potentially be abused to amplify distributed …
Popular hotel Internet gateway devices vulnerable to hacking
Some Internet gateway devices commonly used by hotels and conference centers can easily be compromised by hackers, allowing them to launch a variety of …
Drones Beaming Web Access Are in the Stars for Facebook
In classical mythology, Aquila is the eagle carrying Jupiter’s thunderbolts skyward. At Facebook, it is the code name for a high-flying drone, indicative of …
Eric Garner’s Wikipedia page was edited from an NYPD computer, NYPD admits
The New York Police Department has confirmed that at least some edits to Wikipedia entries about people who died following confrontations with NPYD officers …
Six clicks: How hackers use employees to break through security walls
No one wants to think about the idea of their company’s customer data, infrastructure, IP or network security as the full-time target for hired-gun …
State Dept Unclassified Computer Network Back Online
The State Department says portions of its unclassified computer network that it shut down last week are back online. That follows the completion of …
A network error routed traffic for the UK’s nuclear weapons agency through Russian telecom
For the past week, something strange has been going on in the European internet. For five days, web traffic from Texas to certain addresses …
‘Google VPN’ in-built Hidden Service spotted in Android 5.1
Good news for all Android Lollipop-ers! Google appears to be secretly working on a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, dubbed ‘Google VPN’. The news …
Google Blinks on Project Zero Security Disclosure
Google’s corporate mantra has long been “Don’t be Evil.” However, some in the security community may have taken issue with Google’s policy on disclosing …
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