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JavaScript-Based DRAM Attack Allows Covert Data Theft

07

Nov

2016

A new dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) attack method disclosed by researchers on Friday can allow malicious actors to steal sensitive data from a virtual machine, through a covert channel, using JavaScript. Anders Fogh, principal malware analyst at G DATA Advanced Analytics, and Michael Schwarz, a Ph.D. student at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, […]

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DDos On Dyn Used Malicious TCP, UDP Traffic

27

Oct

2016

Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Dyn provided new details about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Oct. 21 it suffered that disrupted major websites including Okta, CNN, Pinterest, Reddit, and Twitter, and confirmed that the infamous Mirai botnet was the main culprit. Scott Hilton, executive vice president of product for Dyn, in a blog […]

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Twitter Disrupted by DDoS Attack

26

Oct

2016

Twitter, GitHub and several other major websites are inaccessible for many users due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Managed DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn.

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