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Companies, even large ones, haven’t considered disaster recovery plans outside of their primary cloud providers own infrastructure as regularly as they should. In March of this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a massive failure which directly… Continue reading Disaster Recovery: Data Center or Host Infrastructure Reroute
Seven new modules discovered in VPNFilter further fill in the blanks about how the malware operates and reveals a wider breath of capabilities. Continue reading VPNFilter’s Arsenal Expands With Newly Discovered Modules
There are currently no mitigations for the Firefox attack, a researcher told Threatpost. Continue reading Tricky DoS Attack Crashes Mozilla Firefox
The Wireshark team has plugged three serious vulnerabilities that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to crash vulnerable installations. According to Cisco researchers, proof-of-concept (PoC) code that demonstrates an exploit of each of the… Continue reading Wireshark can be crashed via malicious packet trace files
The Bank of Spain revealed that bad actors used a denial-of-service (DoS) attack to temporarily disrupt access to its website. On 27 August, a spokesperson for Spain’s central bank disclosed the attack. They clarified that that incident didn̵… Continue reading Bank of Spain Reveals Its Website Suffered a DoS Attack
The Linux kernel,versions 3.9+,IP implementation is vulnerable to denial of service conditions with low rates of specially modified packets. Continue reading VU#641765: Linux kernel IP fragment re-assembly vulnerable to denial of service
Looking in the rearview mirror The application threat landscape has rapidly evolved. For years, users consumed applications over the internet using the common tool – web browsers. At every point in time, there were 2-5 web browsers to support, a… Continue reading WAFs Should Do A Lot More Against Current Threats Than Covering OWASP Top 10
It is a great shame that back in the days when a typical home computer had easy low-level hardware access that is absent from today’s machines, the cost of taking advantage of it was so high. Professional PCBs were way out of reach of a home constructor, and many of the integrated circuits that might have been used were expensive and difficult to source in small quantities.
Here in the 21st century we have both cheap PCBs and easy access to a wealth of semiconductors, so enthusiasts for older hardware can set to work on projects that would have been …read more
Continue reading A Parallel Port Synthesiser For Your DOS PC
It mind seem odd to think about programming in MSDOS in 2018. But if you are vintage computer enthusiast or have to support some old piece of equipment with an MSDOS single board computer, it could be just the thing. The problem is, where do you get a working compiler that doesn’t have to run on the ancient DOS machine? Turns out, gcc can do the trick. [RenéRebe] offers a video demo based on a blog post by [Chris Wellons]. You can see the video, below.
The technique generates COM files, not EXE files, so there are some limitations, such …read more
SIP-enabled devices have gained widespread use in recent times. With more and more VoIP applications that use SIP as their signalling protocol being developed these days, the industry should put greater emphasis on safeguarding SIP assets against unde… Continue reading SIP Protection: What Your SIP Security Solution Should Have