Month: September 2016

Hosting Provider OVH Hit by 1 Tbps DDoS Attack http://ift.tt/2cVYQnh OVH, one of the world’s largest hosting companies, reported on Thursday that its systems were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that reached nearly one terabit per second (Tbps). Octave Klaba, the founder and CTO of OVH, revealed on Twitter that the company detected a…

Akamai Kicks off Brian Krebs from its network after 665 Gbps DDoS attack http://ift.tt/2d9thbp A couple of days ago Brian Krebs’ blog suffered the largest DDoS attack in the history of Internet – Now, his website has been offline probably because the Akamai/Prolexic can’t bear the cost of such attacks anymore. The official website of…

Critical DoS Flaw found in OpenSSL — How It Works http://ift.tt/2doVw5n The OpenSSL Foundation has patched over a dozen vulnerabilities in its cryptographic code library, including a high severity bug that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. OpenSSL is a widely used open-source cryptographic library that provides encrypted Internet connections using Secure Sockets Layer…

The leak of NSA hacking tools was caused by a staffer mistake http://ift.tt/2d5eJIu A US investigation into the leak of the NSA hacking tools used by the Agency is focusing on a theory that it was caused by a staffer mistake. The hack of the NSA-linked group Equation Group and the leakage of the NSA hacking…