Organizations Respond to HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited for DDoS Attacks

October 11, 2023 at 08:24AM Tech companies including Cloudflare, AWS, and Google have responded to the HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability that led to massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. The attacks exploited the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset feature, resulting in servers being taken down. Organizations like CISA, Microsoft, NGINX, F5, Netty, Apache, Swift, and Linux distributions have issued advisories … Read more

October 9, 2023 at 04:11PM – ‘Looney Tunables’ Linux Flaw Sees Snowballing Proof-of-Concept Exploits

October 9, 2023 at 04:11PM Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) have been developed, putting Linux systems at risk. The flaw, disclosed by Qualys researchers, could lead to unauthorized data access and system alterations, potentially granting attackers root privileges. Linux root takeovers are highly dangerous as … Read more