In case you didn’t know, cyber-criminals often take advantage of bugs (exploitable flaws in software) to get inside their victims’ PCs. That’s why every Internet user should install patches and security updates for their systems and software as soon as they become available. Having scanned your computer, this tool creates a detailed report on any […]
One of #cloudflare’s customers was recently hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that appeared to leverage a mobile ad network and malicious JavaScript. JavaScript-based DDoS attacks have been classified as Layer 7 attacks because they rely on apparently legitimate HTTP requests. Experts have been warning about the possibility of such attacks since 2010, but […]
Since Monday, security pros can add another XSS-finding tool to their arsenal, as Netflix has open sourced their cross-site scripting payload management framework dubbed “Sleepy Puppy.” Sleepy Puppy is meant to address the biggest problem with identifying omnipresent XSS issues: finding them not only on targeted applications, but also on others that are not available […]
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