Sunday, August 10th, 2008
The big security news of Summer 2008 has been Dan Kaminsky's discovery of a serious vulnerability in DNS. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to redirect network clients to alternate servers of his own choosing, presumably for ill ends.This all led to a mad dash to patch DNS servers worldwide, ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Facebook users are being targeted by malicious hackers through postings on the popular Wall section of the social-networking site, security companySophos said Thursday.The Wall, a core feature of Facebook profile pages, is used by members to leave each other messages that in addition to text can also contain photos, videos, ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, so Dan Kaminsky said when speaking publicly about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.He said fixes for the flaw in the net's Domain Name System (DNS) had focused on web browsers but ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.Considering the silent nature of the attack and the sensitive nature ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
One of the worst privacy invaders the world has ever seen is the Internet. When you surf, Web sites can find out where you've been and can gather other information about you. Trojan horses and spyware can snoop on you. Key loggers can capture your keystrokes as you type. Eavesdroppers ...
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