Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Online malware attacks are becoming more pervasive, targeted, and refined as the underground threat economy continues to evolve and take on the characteristics of an organized industry.
The latest iteration of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report -- covering its research over the final six months of calendar 2007 and released on ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Researcher Dan Kaminsky plans to show how a web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers.
Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Hackers are using a new multiple-attack package composed of seven ActiveX exploits, many of them never seen in the wild before, said a security company on Friday.
Fewer than half of the flawed ActiveX controls have been patched.
The attack framework probes Windows PCs for vulnerable ActiveX controls from software vendors Microsoft, ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
In the tiger team operations we have been involved with, I often end up hacking through the least interesting systems. If you ask AP, a password-cracking ninja and master of hacking through simplicity, the less interesting the system is, the higher the chances to be insecure. A successful exploitation of ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
New Additions
Target-Based support to allow rules to use an attribute table describing services running on various hosts on the network. Eliminates reliance on port-based rules.
Support for GRE encapsulation for both IPv4 & IPv6.
Support for IP over IP tunneling for both IPv4 & IPv6.
SSL preprocessor to allow ability to not inspect ...
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