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DNSBomb: New DDoS Attack Explodes DNS Traffic, Threatening Critical Internet Infrastructure

Penetration Testing

Researchers from Tsinghua University have unveiled a potent new method for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, dubbed DNSBomb (CVE-2024-33655).

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Rich threat intel, specialized graph database fuel HYAS’ Protective DNS

The Last Watchdog

Related: Selecting a Protective DNS One smart way to do this is by keeping an eagle eye out for rogue command and control (C2) server communications. And this beaconing must intersect with the Domain Name System (DNS.) DNS security and the overall Protective DNS space is rising in importance.

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MY TAKE: RSAC 2024’s big takeaway: rules-based security is out; contextual security is taking over

The Last Watchdog

Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened RSA Conference 2024 last week issuing a clarion call for the cybersecurity community to defend national security, nurture economic prosperity and reinforce democratic values. Big security services role The second grouping of vendors I met with at RSAC 2024 were more about a security services component.

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Over 92,000 Internet-facing D-Link NAS devices can be easily hacked

Security Affairs

A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Netsecfish’ disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw, tracked as , tracked as CVE-2024-3273 , that impacts multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models. DNS-327L Version 1.09, Version 1.00.0409.2013 DNS-340L Version 1.08

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

eSecurity Planet

February 13, 2024 Zoom Fixes Critical Vulnerability in Windows Products Type of vulnerability: Improper input validation. The vulnerability CVE is CVE-2024-24691. Among the vulnerabilities is CVE-2024-21412 , an Internet Shortcut Files flaw that allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a malicious file to a user.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. 20,551 gambling industry attacks. globally, +19.8%

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April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. Yes, you read that right. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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