Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Cybercriminals have created a global business with a supply chain every bit as organized and sophisticated as that of any legitimate business. The difference is that cybercrime takes advantage of unsuspecting consumers and insecure businesses to steal untold amounts of money.
According to security experts and spam fighters speaking at a ...
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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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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I've been meaning to play with OpenDNS for months now but never got around to it until today. And so far, I really like it. You can check OpenDNS out here:
http://www.opendns.com/
Completely free. This is a fantastic service.
You can use the simple method by just pointing your DNS entries to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft Corp. said Monday that a flaw in the way its Windows operating system looks up other computers on the Internet has resurfaced and could expose some customers to online attacks.
The flaw primarily affects corporate users outside of the U.S. It could theoretically be exploited by attackers to silently redirect ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The steady rise in phishing attacks in the last year, coupled with increasingly sophisticated scams such as "pharming" attacks, is driving interest in technology to lock down critical components such as e-mail and Domain Name System.
But bigger changes to the underlying Internet infrastructure may be needed, according to interviews with ...
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