9 March 2022

Akamai has published details of a DDoS attack which generated more than 53 million packets per second by abusing misconfigured PBX VoIP gateways. Amplification DDoS attacks work by abusing systems which send large responses to small queries.  Thus, an attacker can transmit a number of small requests which have the ‘reply-to’ address set to the […]

A Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed ‘Dirty Pipe’ allows an attacker to change any file on the system – including read only files such as the password file. The flaw affects Linux Kernel 5.8 and later – including Android devices as well as mainstream Linux server distros. Tracked as CVE-2022-0847, the flaw in the way memory