Abstract: This initial study examines the impact of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on OPC UA communications, focusing on their effects under varying security configurations. Using both the hping3 ...

Firewall penetration testing examines the firewall as a security control and identifies the weaknesses that allow unwanted traffic to reach internal systems. It helps to make the network secure by ...

Diving deep into the world of network security often reveals tools that can be used for both ethical and malicious purposes. One such tool is hping3, a versatile packet crafting and network testing ...

Threat actors are weaponizing exposed Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) interfaces to obtain code execution capabilities and deploy cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. "The attacker used a ...

In June 2025, NSFOCUS Fuying Lab Global Threat Hunting System detected that a new botnet family developed based on Go language was spreading on a large scale, and continued to iterate versions and ...

Juniper Networks is warning that Session Smart Router (SSR) products with default passwords are being targeted as part of a malicious campaign that deploys the Mirai botnet malware. The company said ...

I found hping3 and nmap's nping to be far too slow in terms of sending individual, bare-minimum (40-byte) TCP packets; other than inefficient socket I/O, they were also attempting to do far too much ...