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OVHcloud faces record 840 million DDoS Attack Using MikroTik Routers

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French cloud computing firm OVHcloud recently handled the largest DDoS attack in terms of packet rate. This attack occurred during a period of increasing intensity in DDoS attacks. According to the cloud provider, packet rate DDoS attacks are very effective because they are harder to stop than attacks with fewer, …

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New report; Polyfill[.]io Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts

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The web development community was affected by a supply chain attack on the popular Polyfill.io JavaScript library last week. Polyfill.js supports modern tools on older web browsers for cross-compatibility. In February 2024, the Polyfill.io domain and GitHub account were acquired by Funnull, a Chinese CDN company. This raised concerns about …

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Apache HTTP Server Update Patches Critical Source Code Disclosure Flaw

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Apache Software Foundation released Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.61 to fix a serious source code disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2024-39884). This flaw could expose sensitive server information to malicious actors. The CVE-2024-39884 vulnerability is caused by a problem in how old content-type configurations are managed. The “AddType” directive and similar settings, when …

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