A large botnet of Android devices called WireX is responsible for large-scale application-layer DDoS attacks against businesses in the hospitality, porn and gambling industries.
The news of the week is recapped, including the fallout around CloudBleed, the CloudPets breach, and a Slack token bug. The life of Howard Schmidt is also remembered.
Cloudflare said it could not find evidence of malicious exploitation of the Cloudbleed vulnerability, even though the bug was triggered 1.2 million times.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA and discuss the news of the week including the impact of Cloudflare’s “Cloudbleed” bug, Google breaking SHA-1, and more.
Cloudflare has fixed an issue where its customer traffic was leaking memory that included sensitive information including authentication cookies, POST data and more.