Bypass Proxy Services

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Many schools, companies and organizations these days use Internet filtering software to block certain websites from access. However, for every one of these blocking tools, there is a work around for savvy users that want to see the content. It's not that difficult to bypass MySpace filters and other similar ...

Browser hack renders routers insecure

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 ...

Web bugs return using digital certificates

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 ...

A Peek at Snort 3.0

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 ...

Anatomy of a hack attack

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 ...