Friday, August 14th, 2009
Google security specialists Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tiennes report that a critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all versions of 2.4 and 2.6 since 2001, on all architectures. The vulnerability enables users with limited rights to get root rights on the system. The cause is a NULL pointer ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
Wireshark 1.2.0 has been released. This is the new stable release branch of Wireshark and many new and exciting features have been added since 1.0 was released.
In ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows that can detect the OS, hostname and open ports of network hosts through packet sniffing or by parsing a PCAP file. NetworkMiner can also extract transmitted files from network traffic.
New functionalities in the v 0.88 release are:
Support for the Cisco ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Polish researchers have described a way of hiding information in retransmissions of IP-based data traffic. Transmission errors are simulated in a TCP connection to provoke retransmissions and, before packets are retransmitted, their content is replaced with data intended to be concealed.
With the steganographic protocol known to both sender and receiver, ...
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Version 1.0.8 of the Wireshark network protocol analyser has fixed a few bugs, including one that affects the processing of the PCNFSD protocol. Crafted packages can crash the PCNFSD dissector, and the developers classify this as a security vulnerability. A PCNFS server is contained in Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX, ...
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