Much welcome BGP changes in Mikrotik routeros 7.19beta

WhatsApp Vulnerability

A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app’s memory. https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have.html

DDoS attacks in high bandwidth bursts

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ddos-attacks-hitting-victims-in-high-bandwidth-bursts Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600 network-level attacks encountered by its clients to find that attackers continued to increase the intensity of attacks as they also shortened attack duration. More than half of the attacks lasted eight minutes …

Data of 70 million AT&T users exposed

https://cybernews.com/news/att-database-of-70-million-users-sold-on-hacker-forum/ ShinyHunters, the same group of threat actors that posted T-Mobile users’ data for sale just days ago, is now selling 70 million records that allegedly belong to another mobile service provider – AT&T. The sample of data for sale includes …

RouterOS 7 goes RC

What’s new in 7.1rc1 (2021-Aug-19 13:06): !) added support for IPv6 NAT (CLI only);!) added support for L2TPv3 (CLI only);*) added “expired” user status with suggestion to change password (WinBox v3.29 required);*) added bridge HW offload support for vlan-filtering on …

Pentagon transfers 175 million IP’s

As of January 2021, the Pentagon transferred 175 Million IPv4 addresses to a new and unknown Florida based company named Global Resource Systems, LLC.  This came as a bit of a shock to the internet community for the following four …

Portable Raspberry Pi Game system

Looking for a way to take all of those retro games with you? The folks over at VILROS have a solution for you. It’s called the Retroflag GPi CASE with Carrying Bag for Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W. Add …