Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Researcher Dan Kaminsky plans to show how a web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers.Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Spammers are once again using web bugs to verify the validity of of email addresses. This time the trick is not done with graphics but with digital certificates. Alexander Klink from German consultants Cynops has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft products – or possibly in the Crypto API – that ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 The wildly popular open source Snort intrusion prevention technology is getting a major makeover.Marty Roesch, who wrote the first version of the software nearly 10 years ago, has rewritten the software from top to bottom in the next-generation Snort 3.0 release, due in beta next month and early next year ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Monday, 9am
Blackjack, a hacker working from an internet cafe in London, is about to launch an attack on a major government agency. His aim is to cause maximum disruption and embarrassment. And, according to security experts, his job is going to be worryingly easy."Most organisations have dozens of vulnerabilities they ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 1. Thou shalt not buy merchandise found in pop-up ads or spam.
2. Thou shalt not post thy email address, phone number, address or social security number to the internet, nor shalt thou post anyone else's.
3. Thou shalt not forget to update thy Windows every second Tuesday.
4. Thou shalt not connect ...
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