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I was trying to simulate a DoS attack on the CORE network emulator using hping3 (Ubuntu). The topology is like three PCs connected by a router. The client’s IP is 10.0.0.20/24, The server’s IP is 10.0.1.20/24 and the attacker’s IP is 10.0…. Continue reading How can I verify that my DoS attack is effective?
Is there much information about hardening libtorrent usage, or perhaps other bittorrent flavors? I’m curious about denial-of-service attacks in particular.
I could narrow down the bittorrent protocol suite considerably, like probably just… Continue reading Hardened BitTorrent? DoS vulnerabilities?
I logged in to my router to try to figure out why my phone randomly keeps being unable to connect to my WiFi. I looked in the logs and saw 2 strange rows:
[DoS attack: IP packet w/MC or BC SRC addr] from [some IP address], port 0
[DoS atta… Continue reading DoS attack in my home router’s logs
My internet would just stop randomly. Router and modem both show that they are "still connected". What it seems to do is lock up my connection for 5-20 seconds at a time. Normally, no big deal, but streaming, and some games (Lik… Continue reading ACK scans and network disconnects [closed]
It wasn’t a great weekend for video game fans, as players of Diablo IV multiplayer role-playing game were greeted with an error message as it tried to connect to the servers of developer Blizzard. Continue reading Diablo IV video game hit by DDoS attacks
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received a US $3 million ransom demand following a prolonged campaign of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its online services.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading SAS Airlines hit by $3 million ransom demand following DDoS attacks
Latest episode – listen now. Full transcript inside… Continue reading S3 Ep136: Navigating a manic malware maelstrom
Since earlier this month some owners of HP OfficeJet printers have been reporting that they are faced with a blue screen error message, and a bricked device.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading 83C0000B: The error code that means a dodgy software update bricked your HP printer
I have a form where the user can add his phone number then, he receives a verification code on his phone number to log in/register.
Now a user could make too many requests with generated valid numbers to cost me more money (the cost of sen… Continue reading How to limit user from making too many request on an API endpoint? [duplicate]
Twitter shares explicit photos without users’ permission, one US company can look forward to a $1.4 billion payout seven years after an infamous cyberattack, and how might hackers target Eurovision?
All this and much much more is discussed in the la… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #321: Eurovision, acts of war, and Twitter circles