Tag: Denial of Service
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The Register: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/volkswagen_ev_data_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online Feedly Summary: PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security…
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The Register: Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/prometheus_servers_exporters_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not Feedly Summary: Plus: Netscaler brute force barrage; BeyondTrust API key stolen; and more Infosec in brief There’s a problem of titanic proportions brewing for users of the Prometheus open source monitoring toolkit: hundreds of thousands of servers and exporters…
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The Register: Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/operation_poweroff_ddos_takedowns/ Source: The Register Title: Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push Feedly Summary: Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains The Europol-coordinated Operation PowerOFF struck again this week as cross-border cops pulled the plug on 27 more domains tied to distributed…
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Hacker News: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4
Source URL: https://hackerone.com/reports/2887487 Source: Hacker News Title: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text addresses vulnerabilities in the Curl and inet_ntop functions relating to buffer overflow risks due to inadequate buffer size validation. This discussion is particularly relevant for professionals involved in software security,…
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Embrace The Red: Terminal DiLLMa: LLM-powered Apps Can Hijack Your Terminal Via Prompt Injection
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/terminal-dillmas-prompt-injection-ansi-sequences/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Terminal DiLLMa: LLM-powered Apps Can Hijack Your Terminal Via Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: Last week Leon Derczynski described how LLMs can output ANSI escape codes. These codes, also known as control characters, are interpreted by terminal emulators and modify behavior. This discovery resonates with areas I had…
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Hacker News: Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022)
Source URL: https://blog.steveendow.com/2022/05/mitigating-wifi-deauth-attack-with.html Source: Hacker News Title: Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses WiFi deauthentication attacks and how to mitigate them using Protected Management Frames (PMF) in Ubiquiti Unifi systems. It highlights the vulnerability of standard WiFi networks to…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bigger-and-badder-how-ddos-attack-sizes-have-evolved-over-the-last-decade Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade Feedly Summary: If we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an exponential curve that keeps becoming steeper, or…
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Cisco Talos Blog: November Patch Tuesday release contains three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/november-patch-tuesday-release/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: November Patch Tuesday release contains three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: The Patch Tuesday for November of 2024 includes 91 vulnerabilities, including two that Microsoft marked as “critical.” The remaining 89 vulnerabilities listed are classified as “important.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/exploring-internet-traffic-shifts-and-cyber-attacks-during-the-2024-us-election Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election Feedly Summary: Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as…