Slowloris is a type of denial of service attack tool invented by Robert “RSnake” Hansen which allows a single machine to take down another the machine’s web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects on unrelated services and ports.
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A new malware known as Silex is bringing smart devices to their knees. The Silex malware, according to ZDNet, ruins smart devices by gaining access to and destroying a device’s storage, eliminating its firewall and removing its network configuration. From here, the device stops working.
MDS is a family of vulnerabilities in different (related) components of the processor. Unlike Meltdown, MDS doesn’t allow an attacker to directly control the target memory address from which they would like to leak data. Instead, MDS is a form of “sampling” attack in which an attacker can leverage cache side-channel analysis to repeatedly measure
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Varenyky is the name of a trojan which operates as a spambot. It is known that this malicious software if installed, records the victim’s screen when a website containing adult content like pornography is being visited. Same applies to some pages with keywords related to sex.
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In a newly-confirmed Black Hat USA Briefing on HTTP Desync Attacks: Smashing into the Cell Next Door, security researcher James Kettle introduce techniques remote, unauthenticated attackers can use to splice their HTTP requests into others.
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