Last week we learned that Microsoft managed to disrupt a major botnet powered by the infamous ZeuS Trojan. However, it turns out that they didn’t sinkhole all the command and control (C&C) servers, as three of them es... [read more >>] Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the maintainer of BIND, advises that a critical vulnerability allows attackers to perform denial of service attacks by sending malformed dynamic update messages to DNS servers using the so... [read more >>] A new type of attack launched from a single machine with limited hardware resources and bandwidth can cripple many of the webservers on the Internet today. Instead of flooding the server with more packets than it can handle... [read more >>] According to the 2008 DNS Survey, commissioned by network services appliances vendor Infoblox, while some improvements are noticeable, compared to 2007, millions of publicly available DNS servers still allow open recursion,... [read more >>] Dan Kaminsky is the IOActive specialist whose speech was the most anticipated at this year's Black Hat hacker conference held in Las Vegas. This happened because, one month ago, Kaminsky announced that he had discovere... [read more >>] |