We were faced on ITSecurity.co.uk with a problem which was at first out of our control: “somebody” is creating, probably without knowing, a denial of service on this website. The consequence was that it was “consuming” the accesses to the database behind this WordPress site. The ISP hosting the website limits the accesses to 50K a day. […]
My Junk folder from ITSecurityNews.info is currently flooded with “Delivery Status Notification” from various servers, all with the same content. Various servers, same content, in Russian: The email goes indeed from a non existent email address of my domain to some server that refuses it for various reasons. What can you do? Block […]
No, it doesn’t have a name like Heartbleed or POODLE, it was “just” a denial-of-service. “Just” is by no means something to be ignored, but it is less dangerous with the previous vulnerabilities. All users of OpenSSL 1.0.2 should upgrade immediately to version 1.0.2a. In the advisory published on their website the OpenSSL vulnerability is called […]
Dieser Artikel ist auf Deutsch verfügbar: http://tcadistribution.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/wie-cyberangriffe-auch-ihrem-unternehmen-schaden-konnen/ We’ve learned after the Code Spaces incident that started as a DDOS, continued with hacking and then blackmailing that cyberattacks are not something one should ignore. The long story of CodeSpaces put short was: a hacker started a DDOS on the company’s website and services. Nothing unusual, just […]
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