Device Vulnerability
Vulnerability allows hackers to take control of home Internet routers
Check Point has issued an alert on ‘Misfortune Cookie,’ a critical vulnerability that allows an intruder to remotely take over a residential gateway device and use it to attack the devices connected to it.
Universal PnP devices being harnessed for massive DDoS attacks
Akamai Technologies Inc’s Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert) is warning the security community, device vendors, Internet service providers (ISPs) and enterprises of the risk of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks involving Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) devices.
