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Analysis by DNS provider Dyn hints that more than 1 terabyte per second of traffic may have been used in last week’s massive DDoS attack that impacted Internet service on the East Coast. Continue reading Dyn DDoS Could Have Topped 1 Tbps
Ransomware purporting to come from a phony government agency, the Central Security Treatment Organization, has been making the rounds and using Google Maps and Imgur, researchers claim.
Continue reading Cry Ransomware Uses UDP, Imgur, Google Maps
In this beautiful and well-documented reverse engineering feat of strength, [Eric Cohen] reverse-engineered a 1971 Singer calculator to gain control of the fabulous Nixie tubes inside. Where a lesser hacker would have simply pulled the tubes out and put them in a more modern housing, [Eric] kept it all intact.
Not even content to gut the box and toss some modern brains inside, he snooped out the calculator’s internal wiring, interfaced a Raspberry Pi to it, and overrode the calculator’s (860 Hz) bus system. With the Pi on the inside, controlling the Nixie tubes, he did what any of us …read more
Continue reading 45-Year Old Nixie Calculator Turned UDP Server
I am building a service, which will use UDP. It will run on Amazon AWS – in the firewall they provide, I can block everything except that one UDP port my service will run.
The only thing I’m concerned about is receiving a ma… Continue reading How to deal with UDP bandwidth exhaustion DDoS attacks?
Our firewall currently blocks QUIC (UDP 443) traffic which seems to be enabled by default in Google Chrome. Is it safe to allow QUIC or should I wait until it is implemented in all the major browsers?
I understand that it’s … Continue reading Is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) safe to allow through firewall?
My doubt is this: UDP has no sequence numbers, so what indeed is the concept behind UDP session hijacking?
One thing that I don’t understand about peer to peer botnets, is how a bot stays connected to the network considering the protocol used is UDP.
Since the UDP is connectionless, and the bot is behind a firewall, the packets w… Continue reading Firewalled bots in UDP p2p botnets?
Tenable Nessus states that if there is a DNS Server Recursive Query Cache Poisoning Weakness the host allows recursive queries via UDP, then the host can be used to ‘bounce’ Denial of Service attacks against another network o… Continue reading DNS Server Recursive Query Cache Poisoning Weakness "Bounce DoS"
Tenable Nessus states that if there is a DNS Server Recursive Query Cache Poisoning Weakness the host allows recursive queries via UDP, then the host can be used to ‘bounce’ Denial of Service attacks against another network o… Continue reading DNS Server Recursive Query Cache Poisoning Weakness "Bounce DoS"
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Why is TCP more secure than UDP?
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I am referring to confidentiality no… Continue reading Is TCP more secure than UDP? [duplicate]