Day: November 14, 2016

Britain must send its F-35s to Italy for heavy overhauls, decrees US, engines overhauled in Turkey

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Britain will have to send its supersonic F-35 fighter jets to Italy for heavy overhauls, the UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed to The Register. BAE Systems will maintain an airframe maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade (MRO&U) capability at RAF Marham in Norfolk, according to a US announcement earlier this week. However, that will only Read more about Britain must send its F-35s to Italy for heavy overhauls, decrees US, engines overhauled in Turkey[…]

Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives

Posted on by Robin Edgar

For almost five months—possibly longer—the Spotify music streaming app has been assaulting users’ storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans. Reports of tens or in some cases hundreds of gigabytes being written in an hour aren’t uncommon, and occasionally the recorded amounts are measured in terabytes. The overload happens Read more about Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives[…]

5 major Russian banks repel massive DDoS attack

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At least five Russian major banks came under a continuous hacker attack, although online client services were not disrupted. The attack came from a wide-scale botnet involving at least 24,000 computers, located in 30 countries. The attack began Tuesday afternoon, and continued for two days straight, according to a source close to Russia’s Central Bank Read more about 5 major Russian banks repel massive DDoS attack[…]

AdultFriendFinder was hacked, together with affiliates. 400m users data out there

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Adultfriendfinder.com 339,774,493 users “World’s largest sex & swinger community” Cams.com 62,668,630 users “Where adults meet models for sex chat live through webcams” Penthouse.com 7,176,877 users Adult magazine akin to Playboy Stripshow.com 1,423,192 users Another 18+ webcam site iCams.com 1,135,731 users “Free Live Sex Cams” Unknown domain 35,372 users Total: 412,214,295 aff Source: AdultFriendFinder was hacked Read more about AdultFriendFinder was hacked, together with affiliates. 400m users data out there[…]

BlackNurse: Ping of death is back, DoS using only a laptop

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Remember the days back in the 90s when you could cripple someones Internet connection simply by issuing a few PING command like “ping -t [target]”? This type of attack was only successful if the victim was on a dial-up modem connection. However, it turns out that a similar form of ICMP flooding can still be Read more about BlackNurse: Ping of death is back, DoS using only a laptop[…]