Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
In my recent Editors' Notes post on Consumer Reports' recommendation that Mac users dump Safari because the Apple browser lacks the anti-phishing tools of Firefox and Opera, I focused on behavioral changes one can make that minimize the risks of phishing attempts. I didn't, however, discuss a relatively simple configuration ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Metasploit, the information security research and hack tool kit, created by HD Moore, has released exploit code targeting the DNS Cache Poisoning Flaw, recently revealed by Dan Kaminsky, of DoxPara Research.
Evidently, reported at Wired’s ThreatLevel blog, the code can not be utilized to overwrite the domain name server cache data, ...
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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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Monday, July 14th, 2008
The exploit discovered by IOActive's Dan Kaminsky, takes advantage of a fundamental flaw in the DNS (Domain Name Server) protocol. Organizations should move quickly to patch vulnerable DNS servers against a flaw revealed last week. Dan Kaminsky said the bug can be exploited to redirect Internet traffic, but the problem ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The first stage of penetration testing is usually passive information gathering and enumeration (active information gathering). This is where tools like dnsenum come in, the purpose of DNSenum is to gather as much information as possible about a domain.
The program currently performs the following operations:
1. Get the host’s addresse (A ...
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