Fastnetmon at HKNOG13

Fastnetmon at HKNOG13

How was it at HKNOG13? Here’s our conference recap Last Friday, November 1st 2024, we had the absolute pleasure of attending the annual Hong Kong Network Operators Group conference #13 – AKA HKNOG13. Flying in all the way from UK on a short notice was bt of a...
German Police Shuts Down DDoS Service

German Police Shuts Down DDoS Service

German police have announced the disruption of a DDoS-for-hire platform dstat[.]cc. The platform has been playing a significant role in facilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and the crackdown is a big victory for cybercrime defense. German law...
CUPS vulnerability explained 

CUPS vulnerability explained 

How compromised CUPS servers can be a DDoS threat? A newly discovered vulnerability (CVE-2024-47850) in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) can be exploited to stage DDoS attacks. Starting an attack is surprisingly simple. It only requires sending a single packet...