Denial-of-Service Attack…

In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. A DoS attack generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.

As clarification, distributed denial-of-service attacks are sent by two or more people, or bots, and denial-of-service attacks are sent by one person or system. As of 2014, the frequency of recognized DDoS attacks had reached an average rate of 28 per hour. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. Denial-of-service threats are also common in business and are sometimes responsible for website attacks.

This technique has now seen extensive use in certain games, used by server owners, or disgruntled competitors on games, such as popular Minecraft servers. Increasingly, DoS attacks have also been used as a form of resistance. Richard Stallman has stated that DoS is a form of ‘Internet Street Protests’. The term is generally used relating to computer networks, but is not limited to this field; for example, it is also used in reference to CPU resource management.

Anonymous announce revenge of TPB raids with cyberattacks against big corporations through #OpPirateBay….

The Anonymous, The Alchemist, The Right to Information and #OpPirateBay The hacktivist collective today took to Pastebin to announce their cyberwar against the big corporations, whom they alleged to have strong armed the Swedish police to raid The Pirate Bay data center in Nacka, Sweden.  Taking offence at the police raid on unarmed computer geeks manning the servers, the Anonymous acknowledged that one crew member of TPB was arrested in the raid. Drawing parallels with the Alchemists of yore, the Anonymous sought to justify the need of information dissemination and everyone right to it.

They also noted in the paste that they were not against the anti piracy groups or advocates but against big corporations who, they say pour money and resources to stop the dissemination of information. Alleging that governments all over the world were more interested in fattening their purses from the money that these big corporations give them, they said that the government and big corporations were pursuing own hidden agenda for making money and personal gains. Sounding the bugle of cyber attack on such corporations who reject the ideal of freedom of information under a operation called #OpPirateBay, the Anonymous warned them of big attacks in days to come. The paste was signed of with their now famous signature tagline,

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

Router Vulnerability Puts 12 Million Home and Business Routers at Risk…

More than 12 million routers in homes and businesses around the world are vulnerable to a critical software bug that can be exploited by hackers to remotely monitor users’ traffic and take administrative control over the devices, from a variety of different manufacturers.

The critical vulnerability actually resides in web server “RomPager” made by a company known as AllegroSoft, which is typically embedded into the firmware of router , modems and other “gateway devices” from about every leading manufacturer. The HTTP server provides the web-based user-friendly interface for configuring the products.

Researchers at the security software company Check Point have discovered that the RomPager versions prior to 4.34 — software more than 10 years old — are vulnerable to a critical bug, dubbed as Misfortune Cookie. The flaw named as Misfortune Cookie because it allows attackers to control the “fortune” of an HTTP request by manipulating cookies.

HOW MISFORTUNE COOKIE FLAW WORKS

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2014-9222 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, can be exploited by sending a single specifically crafted request to the affected RomPager server that would corrupt the gateway device’s memory, giving the hacker administrative control over it. Using which, the attacker can target any other device on that network.

Tor Network Is Under Attack through Directory Authority Servers Seizures…

 

 

Tor has been targeted once again, but this time at a much larger scale. A new attack on Tor network reportedly would either completely shut it down worldwide or turn it into evil network.

This time Tor – an internet browser which allows people to maintain their anonymity online by protecting their location – is warning its users of a cyber attack that quietly seized some of its network specialized servers called Directory Authorities (DA), the servers that help Tor clients to find Tor relays in the anonymous network service.

Tor network architecture relies on ten Directory Authorities whose information is hardcoded into Tor clients. These directory authorities are located in the Europe and United States, and maintain the signed list of all the verified exit relays of the Tor network, and according to experts, attack on these backbone servers can “incapacitate” the overall architecture of Tor.

Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for ‘Pirate Bay’ Takedown….

Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for ‘Pirate Bay’ Takedown  An online “hacktivist” group that calls itself Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking into email accounts of Swedish government in response to the seizure of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week. Apart from Sweden government officials, the Anonymous hacktivist group also claimed to have hacked into the government email accounts of Israel, India, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, and revealed their email addresses with passwords in plain-text. The Anonymous group also left a message at the end of the leak: “Warning: Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all!! Bye :*“