Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Secure64, which specializes in products designed to support the domain name system (DNS), has released the product to help prevent a condition in which the server's local list of domain name mappings is corrupted. Attackers create this condition by pretending to be another DNS server responding to a DNS query.One ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Vulnerability assessment vendor Rapid7 has announced the first of a series of steps to integrate its penetration testing and vulnerability assessment scanning products. The first step is a module that allows users of the Metasploit Framework, which Rapid7 acquired in October to natively import NeXpose scanner results and then take ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Here is a great video from Robert "RSnake" Hansen explaining what DNS Rebinding actually is and shows some various attacks that may be performed as a result of it. RSnake also explains what can be done to fix the problem and explains why it might not happen any time soon.DNS ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Web browsers enforce the same origin policy to prevent one site's active content (such as JavaScript) from accessing or modifying another site's data. For instance, active content hosted at http:///page1.html can access DOM objects on http:///page2.html, but cannot access objects hosted at http:///page.html. Many clientless SSL VPN products retrieve content ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009 Sun today released VirtualBox 3.1.0, a major update introducing teleportation, branched snapshots, 2D video acceleration for Windows guests, more flexible storage management and much more. See the ChangeLog for details. Download:http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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