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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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The Ubuntu Unleashed blog has an excellent guide to the ins and outs of the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw), a new feature in Ubuntu Linux 8.04, or Hardy Heron, that makes it easy to control the traffic into and out of your system. While turning on the firewall is as simple ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Most of todays tools for fingerprinting are focusing on server-side services. Well-known and widely-accepted implementations of such utilities are available for http web services, smtp mail server, ftp servers and even telnet daemons. Of course, many attack scenarios are focusing on server-side attacks.
Client-based attacks, especially targeting web clients, are becoming ...
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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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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on ...
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