Internet Providers usually spend their time worrying about threats from hackers, link failures, and router configuration errors. Yesterday, though, many of them were worried about Tigers… Starting around 9 am Pacific and peaking at 1:30 pm yesterday, many ISPs noticed an unusual increase in traffic. At first, a few security engineers worried they were under [...]
A multi-vendor SNMPv3 security bug has been found and fixed in Net-SNMP 5.x. It turns out that a lot of vendors suffered the same issues, probably from commonly derived code. Vendors including Juniper, Cisco, and NetApp, among others, have been affected and have made updates available to customers. The bug is in the HMAC digest [...]
In this Help Net Security podcast Dr. Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior security researcher, talks about politically motivated DDoS attacks around the world.