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The Smurf Amplifier Registry is a blacklist of networks on the Internet which have been misconfigured in such a way that they can be used, as smurf amplifiers for smurf denial of service attacks. It can probe networks for vulnerability to smurf amplification, and then will either add them to its database, or remove them from the database ...
A subsequent investigation found that the campaign to insert the backdoor into the XZ Utils project was a culmination of approximately three years of effort, between November 2021 and February 2024, [14] by a user going by the name Jia Tan and the nickname JiaT75 to gain access to a position of trust within the project.
The federal government gave OAIC $5.5 million to investigate the breach over two years in its October 2022 budget. [25] Law firm Slater & Gordon launched a class action alleging Optus "breached laws and its own policies by failing to adequately protect customer data and destroy or de-identify former customer data". The ongoing class action was ...
Exploits are digital products, which means that they are information goods with near-zero marginal production costs. [7] However, they are atypical information goods. Unlike e-books or digital videos, they do not lose their value because they are easy to replicate but due to the fact that once they are exposed, the original developer will "patch" the vulnerability, decreasing the value of the ...
OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner, originally known as GNessUs) is the scanner component of Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM), a software framework of several services and tools offering vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management. [2]
Stagefright is the name given to a group of software bugs that affect versions from 2.2 "Froyo" up until 5.1.1 "Lollipop" [1] of the Android operating system exposing an estimated 950 million devices (95% of all Android devices) at the time. [1] The name is taken from the affected library, which among other things, is used to unpack MMS ...
In computer security, a reflection attack is a method of attacking a challenge–response authentication system that uses the same protocol in both directions. That is, the same challenge–response protocol is used by each side to authenticate the other side.
The Act defines that a vulnerable adult includes anyone over 18 years old whose mental or physical disabilities leave them helpless against abuse, neglect, and self-neglect, which terms are defined in s.2. [19] [20]