Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Cause Major Outages to Popular Sites

The Hacker News Daily Updates Breaking Into Cyber Security (Free eBook Training Course) A $47 Value! The cyber risk landscape is evolving rapidly in a multitude of areas and the potential economic fallout from the threat cannot be underestimated. Advance your knowledge and career with this course. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 21, 2016 Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Causes Major Outages to Popular Sites Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any service. Recently, the Internet witnessed a record-breaking largest DDoS attack of over 1 Tbps against ... Read More Dirty COW — Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild A nine-year-old critical vulnerability has been discovered in virtually all versions of the Linux operating system and is actively being exploited in the wild. Dubbed "Dirty COW," the Linux kernel security flaw (CVE-2016-5195) is a mere privilege-escalation vulnerability, but researchers are ... Read More Ex-NSA Contractor Stole 50 TB of Classified Data; Includes Top-Secret Hacking Tools Almost two months ago, the FBI quietly arrested NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III for stealing an enormous number of top secret documents from the intelligence agency. Now, according to a court document filed Thursday, the FBI seized at least 50 terabytes of data from 51-year-old Martin that ... Read More Over 43 Million Weebly Accounts Hacked; Foursquare Also Hit By Data Breach 2016 is the year of data breaches that has made almost every major companies victims to the cyber attacks, resulting in compromise of over billion of online users accounts. Weebly and Foursquare are the latest victims of the massive data breach, joining the list of "Mega-Breaches" revealed in ... Read More MBRFilter — Open Source Tool to Protect Against 'Master Boot Record' Malware Ransomware threat has risen exponentially so much that ransomware authors have started abusing the MBR in their attacks to lock down your entire computer instead of just encrypting your important files on hard drive. Talos team at Cisco Systems has released a free, open-source tool that protects ... Read More Breaking Into Cyber Security (Free eBook Training Course) A $47 Value! The cyber risk landscape is evolving rapidly in a multitude of areas and the potential economic fallout from the threat cannot be underestimated. Advance your knowledge and career with this course. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India