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Learn about daily tech and hacking news along with VAPT( Vulnerability As*essment and Pe*etration Testing) through Kali Linux with step by Uber had revealed in November 2016 that hackers had stolen names, phone numbers and email ids of 57 million customers across the globe. The hackers had also stolen driver licence number of 600,000 drivers in the United States of America. While this hack was covered up for more than an year, Uber had acknowledge paying $100,000 to hackers to ensure that they do not misuse the data. The company had fired chief security officer Joe Sullivan and his senior lawyer Craig Clark for covering the same. According to Pennsylvania data breach law, a business must inform the victims in case of a data breach of personal information within a DDOS or Distributed Denial Of service refers to crashing server by sending tons of requests from different systems. The systems are usually infected with trojan or malware and all the online systems are made to send continuous requests at one particular time flooding the Memcached server are more responsive than usual servers since they have improved memory caching. Attackers spoofed githubs IP and took control of memacached servers of Github from UDP port 11211. Github stated that these servers are inaccessible to the general public. They used it to amplify traffic and attempted to crash the server. The amplification was around 50 This is the largest DDOS attack ever recorded in the history. Astonishingly it took Github approximately just 5 mins to recover. Github was down on 28th Feb between 17:21 UTC and 17:26 UTC. WHAT IS SS7? Signalling System No 7 (SS7)  is an international telephone signalling protocol which was developed in 1975 . SS7 is designed to operate in two modes: as*ociated mode and quasi-as*ociated mode. The diagram shows a basic  structure of the network. Customers are connected at End Office. It is directly connected to service switching point (SSP) which converts the dialed digits to signalling