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An anonymous reader writes “Despite warnings that a cyberattack could cripple the nation’s power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies’ efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some 10,000 attempted attacks every month. The report moreover found that while[...]

An anonymous reader writes “Despite warnings that a cyberattack could cripple the nation’s power supply, a U.S. Congressional report (PDF) finds that power companies’ efforts to protect the power grid are insufficient. Attacks are apparently commonplace, with one utility claiming they fight off some 10,000 attempted attacks every month. The report moreover found that while[...]

Obeseus is a light-weight, high-speed ip DDOS detector that has been designed to run on an Intel probe running an advanced 10 Gb/s FPGA card. It detects TCP floods, Fragment Floods, raw ICMP/TCP/UDP, reflected (DNS / SMURF) & BOGON misuse. It moreover detects application misuse in HTTP & UDP. View Source

Obeseus is a light-weight, high-speed ip DDOS detector that has been designed to run on an Intel probe running an advanced 10 Gb/s FPGA card. It detects TCP floods, Fragment Floods, raw ICMP/TCP/UDP, reflected (DNS / SMURF) & BOGON misuse. It moreover detects application misuse in HTTP & UDP. View Source

WordPress Flagallery-skins plugin suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. View Source

WordPress Flagallery-skins plugin suffers from an SQL Injection vulnerability. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. View Source

An anonymous reader writes “Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, & Linux. The new version features a huge boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of ‘smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,’ according to Google.[...]

An anonymous reader writes “Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, & Linux. The new version features a huge boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of ‘smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,’ according to Google.[...]

Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will shortly be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. “SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each approximately the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that’s getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit[...]

Wired reports on a cluster of mini-satellites that will shortly be launched into orbit that will assist U.S. special forces personnel during manhunts. “SOCOM is putting eight miniature communications satellites, each approximately the size of a water jug, on top of the Minotaur rocket that’s getting ready to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia. They’ll sit[...]