BGP errors are to blame for Monday’s Twitter outage, not DDoS attacks

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SQLi, XSS zero-days expose Belkin IoT devices, Android smartphones

Research director Scott Tenaglia and lead research engineer Joe Tanen detailed the vulnerabilities during their talk at the Black Hat Europe conference in London last Friday. The zero-day flaws specifically relate to Belkin’s smart home products and accompanying Android mobile application, which is used to wirelessly control the home automation devices. Read More

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BGP errors are to blame for Monday’s Twitter outage, not DDoS attacks

Early Monday morning, for about thirty minutes, Twitter went dark. Almost immediately, once service was returned, people started speculating about a massive attack. However, Monday’s outage wasn’t anything malicious, by all accounts it was a technical error caused by misconfigured BGP routes. Read More

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