Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The bug has to do with the way DNS clients and servers obtain information from other DNS servers on the Internet. When the DNS software does not know the numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address of a computer, it asks another DNS server for this information. With cache poisoning, the attacker ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
US-CERT and other security experts have warned of a critical design problem affecting all DNS implementations. The Domain Name Service is responsible for converting readable names like www.heise-online.co.uk into the IP addresses that computers can handle, such as 193.99.144.85. DNS is thus the internet equivalent to a phonebook and without ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Google has decided to step up the safety of Gmail by adding some small new features available to every user. The footer of your session will now contain information such as your last log in, activity, and IP address that the session was accessed from.In addition to above, users will ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Have you ever needed to PING a host, run trace a Web route, or see what information you're exposing to Internet without having to reconfigure the security on your perimeter devices? Have you tired of having to call your managed security services provider to let them know it's you creating ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
SIPVicious suite is a set of tools that can be used to audit SIP based VoIP systems. It currently consists of four tools:
svmap - this is a sip scanner. Lists SIP devices found on an IP range
svwar - identifies active extensions on a PBX
svcrack - an online password cracker for ...
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