Tag: Denial of Service
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Round 3 of the toothbrush DDoS debacle!
The story so far. Round 1 The newspaper Aargauer Zeitung published an article claiming that three million IoT-connected toothbrushes had …
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Round 3 in the toothbrush DDoS debacle!
The story so far. Round 1 The newspaper Aargauer Zeitung published an article claiming that three million IoT-connected toothbrushes had …
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Tooth be told: Toothbrush DDoS attack claim was lost in translation, says Fortinet
After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, …
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The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world
Here are a few headlines from the last 24 hours or so, about a supposed smart toothbrush botnet launching a distributed denial-of-service …
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China is hacking Wi-Fi routers for attack on US electrical grid and water supplies, FBI warns
Got two-and-a-half hours to spare? Maybe instead of settling down to watch …
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Be the Royal Family’s Cybersecurity Manager, and get a cut-price honey dipper!
Fancy a high-profile cybersecurity job? Here’s one for …
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Making iPhones and iPads crash with a Flipper Zero
Want to crash someone’s iPhone or iPad? Turns out it’s not that tricky, if you have a Flipper …
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Smashing Security podcast #342: Royal family attacked, keyless car theft, and a deepfake Tom Hanks
Is a deepfake Tom Hanks better than the real thing? Who has been attacking the British Royal Family’s website, and …
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Diablo IV video game hit by DDoS attacks
It wasn’t a great weekend for video game fans, as players of Diablo IV multiplayer role-playing game were greeted with an error message …
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SAS Airlines hit by $3 million ransom demand following DDoS attacks
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received a US $3 million ransom demand following a prolonged campaign of distributed denial-of-service …
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Smashing Security podcast #321: Eurovision, acts of war, and Twitter circles
Twitter shares explicit photos without users’ permission, one US company can look forward to a $1.4 billion payout seven years after an …
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Israel’s Prime Minister has his Facebook account hijacked, website knocked offline
Yesterday was the official Independence Day of Israel, and the event was “celebrated” in typical style by malicious …
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