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.
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
There's nothing new about Windows trojans resorting to a little blackmail, but Computer Associates has now observed a new twist; a trojan which blocks internet access until the user enters an activation code. This is activation code is obtained by sending an SMS containing a particular number to an expensive ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Web browsers enforce the same origin policy to prevent one site's active content (such as JavaScript) from accessing or modifying another site's data. For instance, active content hosted at http:///page1.html can access DOM objects on http:///page2.html, but cannot access objects hosted at http:///page.html. Many clientless SSL VPN products retrieve content ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Sun today released VirtualBox 3.1.0, a major update introducing teleportation, branched snapshots, 2D video acceleration for Windows guests, more flexible storage management and much more. See the ChangeLog for details. Download:http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
The Koobface Web site offers a video posted by 'SantA'. The usual ruse of requiring a codec to watch the video is used, to encourage the user to install and run a file called setup.exe (SHA1:a2046fc88ab82abec89e150b915ab4b332af924a). This file is currently detected by 16 out of 41 antivirus products according to ...
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