An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Oct-21-2016
- Business Technology
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Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies.
Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting access to […]
An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Oct-21-2016
- Business Technology
- Comments Off on An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack
Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies.Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting access to […]
Read MoreEasy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux PCs at risk
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Oct-21-2016
- Business Technology
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The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that’s already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to servers, desktops and other devices that run the OS.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, has […]
Read MoreEasy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux PCs at risk
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Oct-21-2016
- Business Technology
- Comments Off on Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux PCs at risk
The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that’s already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to servers, desktops and other devices that run the OS.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, has […]
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