Apple Partially Fixes FaceTime Spying Bug
Apple reported on Friday that the FaceTime spying bug that has been making headlines in the past days has been partially fixed, but users will have to wait until next week for a software update. According to Apple, a server-side patch has been implemented, but the application update that re-enables the Group FaceTime feature will […]
Flaw Possibly Affecting 500,000 Ubiquity Devices Exploited in the Wild
Nearly half a million Ubiquity devices may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild, security experts warned last week. Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed last week on Twitter that hackers had been remotely targeting Ubiquity networking devices exposed via […]
Attackers Use CoAP For DDoS Amplification
Attackers recently started abusing the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) for the reflection/amplification of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, NETSCOUT warns. CoAP is a simple UDP protocol designed for low-power computers on unreliable networks that appears similar to HTTP, but which operates over UDP (User Datagram Protocol) port 5683. The protocol is mainly used by […]