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Microsoft Releases Out of Band Update Before Year Ends

31

Dec

2011

Microsoft has released an advisory alerting its users about a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET (CVE-2011-3414). An attacker could potentially bring down a server (Denial of Service) with specially crafted requests. Given that all versions of ASP.NET are vulnerable, its exposure is pretty big. This advisory was in response to a public advisory presented in the […]

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Large percentage of websites vulnerable to HashDoS denial of service attack

29

Dec

2011

Researchers presented information on a long standing vulnerability in most web application frameworks at today’s 28c3 (28th Chaos Communication Congress) security conference in Berlin, Germany, Earth, Milky Way. Alexander “alech” Klink and Julian “zeri” Walde delivered a demonstration and lecture titled “Efficient Denial of Service Attacks on Web Application Platforms”. In their lecture they explained […]

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KISS’s Gene Simmons website DDoS attack: Suspected Anonymous hacker charged

14

Dec

2011

When the website of rock star Gene Simmons fell victim to a denial-of-service attack for five days in October 2010, the legendary KISS front man vowed revenge. Yesterday, a 24-year-old man suspected of being linked to the Anonymous hacktivist group was arrested by the FBI in relation to the attack. Kevin George Poe, of Manchester, […]

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