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Let’s see a real-life evidence from the BitNinja logs how we detect and block script injection.  The hackers always think they can fool the software, but the malicious scripts and packages are constantly dropped by Ninja Security. Being a machine-learning system, BitNinja collects the attack information and spreads it to other protected servers, so they will […]

Let’s start with the definition. Ransomware is a kind of malware that installs itself onto an unprotected computer, encrypts some files, and asks for a certain amount of money for decryption or to not publish certain sensitive information online. It is called a denial-of-access attack and it can be very frustrating because you know that the […]

President-elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump, will be inaugurated into office on Friday, January 20th, 2017. In light of this passing of the torch from President Obama to Trump, it’s important to review where Trump stands on cyber security and what his policies and goals may represent. I’ll break down Trump’s four main […]

We are all human beings and do not work like flawless creatures of artificial intelligence, we are prone to make mistakes and forget things. Although, sometimes we forget crucial information which might be essential to our daily life, like the root password of our server. For a sysadmin it can be a real disaster if […]

I’m sure you’ve heard about the recent headlines about the hacked cameras with the system default passwords or how IoT (Internet of Things) devices can serve as botnets in huge DDoS attacks against the most frequently visited websites. One of these kinds of attacks was a DDoS attack against Dyn, the internet infrastructure company responsible […]

Today (2016, 07 Nov) we released the newest version of BitNinja. Let’s see what has changed: SenseLog supervisors can be disabled in /etc/bitninja/SenseLog/config.ini CaptchaHttp now checks remote address at connection time From now on the BitNinja captcha is able to determine the performer of the connection in the exact moment when the connection has been established. […]

Recently our support team has received questions about a highly controversial topic, a traffic exchange service, because these server owners started to receive incident reports from us about DoS attacks coming from their servers. We decided to write this blog in order to dissolve any possible concerns and doubts about BitNinja’s reaction to this service […]

Relational database, SQL, SELECT SQL is a language designed for the manipulation of relational databases and for the retrieval of information from that database. A relation most commonly looks like a chart, which can be, for example, an article. ARTICLES ID Title Text 1 DoS abc1  2    DDoS abc2 The columns are called attributes […]