Saturday, July 31st, 2010
This feature has been around for a while but I wanted to make sure everybody knows that if you are an OpenDNS customer you have a nice option in your Control Panel to help protect against DNS Rebinding attacks. This feature is turned off by default but you can enable ...
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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
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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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Researchers have discovered a new attack that exploits the way browsers operate with Adobe Flash -- and there's no simple patch for it.
The attack can occur on Websites that accept user-generated content -- anything from Webmail to social networking sites. An attacker basically takes advantage of the fact that a ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Scrawlr, developed by the HP Web Security Research Group in coordination with the MSRC, is short for SQL Injector and Crawler. Scrawlr will crawl a website while simultaneously analyzing the parameters of each individual web page for SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Scrawlr is lightning fast and uses our intelligent engine technology ...
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