STUN Servers increasingly abused for DDoS attacks
Network security experts have found an increase in attacks using Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN). How to protect yourself?
New TsuNAME DNS bug allows attackes to DDoS authoritative DNS servers
Researchers at SIDN Labs, (.nl domain zone), InternetNZ (.nz domain zone) and the University of Southern California (Institute of Information Sciences) publicly disclose tsuNAME. Key Internet infrastructure of the national level could be at risk, according to researchers and practitioners.
Belgium suffered the biggest DDoS attack in its history
Hundreds of Belgian state institutions, hospitals, universities and schools faced some problems with internet connection. According to Belnet’s status page, one of the massive DDoS attacks took place, disabling thousands of people from doing their jobs across the whole country.
