• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-27-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on No need to shoot down drones! Many of them can now be hijacked

A security researcher has devised a method of hijacking a wide variety of radio- controlled airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats and other devices that use a popular wireless transmission technology.
The attack was developed by Jonathan Andersson, manager of the Advanced Security […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-26-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Friday’s DDoS attack came from 100,000 infected devices

Friday’s massive internet disruption came from hackers using an estimated 100,000 devices, many of which have been infected with a notorious malware that can take over cameras and DVRs, said DNS provider Dyn.
“We are able to confirm that a significant volume […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-26-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Friday’s DDoS attack came from 100,000 infected devices

Friday’s massive internet disruption came from hackers using an estimated 100,000 devices, many of which have been infected with a notorious malware that can take over cameras and DVRs, said DNS provider Dyn.
“We are able to confirm that a significant volume […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-26-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on DDoS attacks from webcams, routers hit Singapore’s StarHub

Following Friday’s massive internet disruption in the U.S., a Singapore-based broadband provider reports it faced two distributed denial-of-service attacks, forcing users offline.The attacks, which occurred Saturday and then on Monday, targeted Singapore’s StarHub, briefly cutting internet access for the company’s […]