Saturday, July 31st, 2010 This feature has been around for a while but I wanted to make sure everybody knows that if you are an OpenDNS customer you have a nice option in your Control Panel to help protect against DNS Rebinding attacks. This feature is turned off by default but you can enable ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009 To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants.Not the actual live insects, of course, but computer programs modelled to act like ants in the way they roam a network and search for anomalies. "Ants aren't intelligent," says Glenn Fink, a senior research ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 D-Link have announced new CAPTCHA security for selected models in their router range, promising more resilience against DNS-altering malware and spyware. The new firmware - which is also available to upgrade on existing models - adds the familiar distorted letters and numbers to common router settings pages.By changing the DNS ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 This is it! After many months of effort from the Remote Exploit Dev team, BackTrack 4 Beta is ready and available. I thought I'd post up some "getting started" notes, to help people out with the first surge of questions.Default password to BackTrack 4 hasn't changed, still root / toor.
KDE ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Things are a-brewin’ in Sweden. Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and the employer of my friend Robert E. Lee and his colleague Jack C. Louis. These guys are the inventors ...
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