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Double Security Whammy, No Patches: Killer SSL DDoS Attack, XML Encryption Broken

A German hacking group released a new SSL DDoS tool that can be successfully launched from a single laptop, a single DSL connection, to take down a server. Researchers in Germany found and exploited a flaw that breaks the W3C XML Encryption standard with a serious attack that works in all cases. Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Apache and other major XML framework providers will need to adopt a new standard. The THC-SSL-DOS attack tool “does not require any bandwidth and just a single attack computer””]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2220944/double-security-whammy-no-patches-killer-ssl-ddos-attack-xml-encryption-broken.html

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