Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
You don’t have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack. A researcher this week will demonstrate a PDOS attack that can take place remotely.
A PDOS attack damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. Unlike ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Over the weekend, a number of network administrators issued warnings over an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of attempts to guess the username and password of systems running secure shell (SSH), the encrypted access method that replaced the common telnet service. System administrators at universities and some companies have reported ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites.
The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
The mass SQL injection attacks we've mentioned here and here are increasing in numbers and we're seeing more domains being injected and used to host the attack files and we believe that there are now more than one group using a set of different automated tools to inject the code.
Previously ...
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