Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
One of the patches Microsoft issued last week is nothing of the sort, according to a researcher who has accused Microsoft of making functionality a higher priority than security.
According to Tyler Reguly, a senior security engineer with nCircle Security, last Tuesday's MS09-008 update does not fix the problem for all ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
How do you transition from being a recent graduate from a Security degree to actually getting into the field to gain real-world experience? I thought for sure this Bachelors in Information Systems Security would be my key and that I would be in high demand for any company. Now, I ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
A technique for worsening the effects of a distributed denial-of-service-type attacks uses a feature in the DNS system that was once designed to be helpful. Patching it could involve reconfiguring millions of domain-name servers, or even rethinking how the system works.
A DDoS attack, of course, involves bombarding a target site ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
On Monday, OpenDNS, the free DNS service, plans to start blocking the Conficker worm's attempts to connect to potential control servers. According to The Register, the new free service will also be able to alert administrators to the presence of the Conficker worm and assist them in locating infected machines.
Conficker ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
DNS Changer 2.0 (Trojan.Flush.M) is the next –in the wild- variant of this famous malware. Now the strategy has been changed, no need to modify the DNS settings on ADSL routers. Instead it will install a network driver (NDISProt.sys) which allows the malware to send/receive raw Ethernet packets. Such approach ...
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