http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Server related Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 05:34:55 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 05:34:55 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/3-ZeuS-Botnet-Command-and-Control-Server-Evade-Microsoft-262842.shtml 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 escaped the long arm of the Redmond company.

FireEye researchers analyzed the botnet targeted by Microsoft... (read more)]]> Wed, 4 Apr 2012 14:04:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/3-ZeuS-Botnet-Command-and-Control-Server-Evade-Microsoft-262842.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/3-ZeuS-Botnet-Command-and-Control-Server-Evade-Microsoft-262842.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-s-iCloud-Great-for-Protecting-Data-and-Privacy-but-Not-for-Enterprise-Users-262690.shtml A few experts have taken their time to thoroughly analyze Apple’s iCloud and they concluded that it clearly follows the industry’s best practices in ensuring that customer data and privacy are protected.

However, according to ArsTechnica, Apple doesn’t hide the fact that even though ... (read more)]]> Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:37:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-s-iCloud-Great-for-Protecting-Data-and-Privacy-but-Not-for-Enterprise-Users-262690.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-s-iCloud-Great-for-Protecting-Data-and-Privacy-but-Not-for-Enterprise-Users-262690.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Zero-Day-Vulnerability-Causes-BIND-9-Server-Crash-235159.shtml Organizations worldwide began reporting their DNS servers that relied on BIND keep crashing while the nameservers were performing recursive queries.

The Internet System Consortium (ICS) claims that multiple versions were affected by an unidentified network event. Sophos names it a “denial of service vulnerability being exploit... (read more)]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:47:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Zero-Day-Vulnerability-Causes-BIND-9-Server-Crash-235159.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Zero-Day-Vulnerability-Causes-BIND-9-Server-Crash-235159.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Compromised-Web-Servers-Used-to-Build-SSH-Brute-Force-Botnet-151779.shtml There are strong indications that unidentified hackers are currently building a botnet, possibly by exploiting a vulnerability in outdated phpMyAdmin installations, and are using it to launch SSH brute force attacks.

Apparently more and more Web server owners are finding instances of an unauthorized script called dd_ssh run... (read more)]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:55:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Compromised-Web-Servers-Used-to-Build-SSH-Brute-Force-Botnet-151779.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Compromised-Web-Servers-Used-to-Build-SSH-Brute-Force-Botnet-151779.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/BIND-DNS-Servers-Vulnerable-to-Denial-of-Service-Attacks-117813.shtml 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 software. Administrators are urged to deploy patches for their operating system immediately, if available.

... (read more)]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/BIND-DNS-Servers-Vulnerable-to-Denial-of-Service-Attacks-117813.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/BIND-DNS-Servers-Vulnerable-to-Denial-of-Service-Attacks-117813.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-OpenSSH-Exploit-Possibly-Used-in-the-Wild-116247.shtml Rumors about the existence of an exploit for a yet undisclosed OpenSSH vulnerability are actively circulating on forums, blogs and mailing lists. The little, probable proof that is available suggests that the latest OpenSSH version is not affected.

The problem was first mentioned in a thread on the Webhosting Talk Forums, where someone ... (read more)]]> Thu, 9 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-OpenSSH-Exploit-Possibly-Used-in-the-Wild-116247.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-OpenSSH-Exploit-Possibly-Used-in-the-Wild-116247.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Web-Servers-in-Danger-from-Low-Bandwidth-HTTP-DoS-114745.shtml 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, this new denial of service condition implies sending only a couple of hundreds of partial HTTP requests.

This n... (read more)]]> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Web-Servers-in-Danger-from-Low-Bandwidth-HTTP-DoS-114745.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Web-Servers-in-Danger-from-Low-Bandwidth-HTTP-DoS-114745.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Barracuda-Web-Application-Firewall-860-and-960-Launched-106065.shtml Barracuda Networks Inc, a well-known company in the field of email and Web security appliances, has recently launched the Barracuda Web Application Firewall 860 and 960 addressed to enterprises and large companies looking for affordable ways to secure Web apps, such as websites or XML Web Services. The new product comes with prices of $24,... (read more)]]> Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:34:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Barracuda-Web-Application-Firewall-860-and-960-Launched-106065.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Barracuda-Web-Application-Firewall-860-and-960-Launched-106065.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Giorgiana Bursuc) http://news.softpedia.com/news/SQL-Injection-Malicious-Tools-Cost-on-Average-63-98915.shtml In mid-2008 Microsoft made available three security tools (one developed in conjunction with the HP Web Security Research Group) designed to counter the increasing wave of SQL injection attacks faced by customers running its software. SQL injection attacks were escalating at that point, targeting design flaws in web applications and not vulnerabi... (read more)]]> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/SQL-Injection-Malicious-Tools-Cost-on-Average-63-98915.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/SQL-Injection-Malicious-Tools-Cost-on-Average-63-98915.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Marius Oiaga) http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Servers-Still-in-Danger-97641.shtml 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, which makes them vulnerable to DoS and cache poisoning attacks.

The tests were carried out by the Test Measurement Factory, using two ... (read more)]]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:12:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Servers-Still-in-Danger-97641.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Servers-Still-in-Danger-97641.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-IRS-Network-Puts-Tax-Payers-at-Risk-93064.shtml The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), audited the network security of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as part of its mandatory annual review. In doing so, it found 2,093 internal vulnerable web servers on the network and 1,811 web servers that were not authorized to access the network.

According to the TIGTA report, ... (read more)]]> Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:35:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-IRS-Network-Puts-Tax-Payers-at-Risk-93064.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-IRS-Network-Puts-Tax-Payers-at-Risk-93064.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/U-S-Plans-to-Deploy-DNSSEC-92688.shtml The White House released a memo, signed by Karen Evans, the Administrator for the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, which instructs all government agencies to prepare for securing the federal government’s DNS infrastructure over the next year.

The document outlines a plan for the agencies to deploy the DNSSEC technology in order to se... (read more)]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:29:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/U-S-Plans-to-Deploy-DNSSEC-92688.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/U-S-Plans-to-Deploy-DNSSEC-92688.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Stable-Version-of-OpenVAS-Security-Scanner-Released-91873.shtml The "Open Vulnerability Assessment System" (OpenVAS) is an open source fork of the well-known Nessus vulnerability scanner. The OpenVAS project announced the first stable release yesterday.

The project was born when Nessus 3 changed its licensing terms and adopted a proprietary license. Because of this, OpenVAS is an open source... (read more)]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Stable-Version-of-OpenVAS-Security-Scanner-Released-91873.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Stable-Version-of-OpenVAS-Security-Scanner-Released-91873.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Constantin) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Email-Security-Threatened-by-DNS-Flaw-91595.shtml 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 discovered a DNS flaw that employed completely new methods to steal data and affect users' connections. When all those either too curious or too impat... (read more)]]> Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:34:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Email-Security-Threatened-by-DNS-Flaw-91595.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Email-Security-Threatened-by-DNS-Flaw-91595.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Denisa Ilascu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Plashing-Attacks-Could-Destroy-Your-Hardware-86212.shtml A new type of security attacks, codenamed phlashing, could bring more damages than any other attack launched over the web: the need of hardware replacement. According to various sources, security researchers have found that phlashing attacks, which could hit the hardware components of computers, may damage them and force owners to replace them. Rich ... (read more)]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 07:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Plashing-Attacks-Could-Destroy-Your-Hardware-86212.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Plashing-Attacks-Could-Destroy-Your-Hardware-86212.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Burma-Has-No-More-Internet-Access-67275.shtml If you haven't been living under a rock, then you know of the crisis in Burma. The Burmese regime, desperate in a fight against democracy and perhaps just as desperate not to let info leak out of the country is going out of their way to keep things quiet. However, everyone knows of the recent uprising of the monks and how the army responded to that. There's eve... (read more)]]> Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:01:03 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Burma-Has-No-More-Internet-Access-67275.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Burma-Has-No-More-Internet-Access-67275.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Romanians-Could-Take-Down-The-Internet-66825.shtml Hackers attacking servers today has become something common. Though only a few are successful - they strive every day to do some damage to high profile companies. VeriSign - a giant amongst IT companies, and which operates two of the Internet's thirteen root servers - has complained that a successful denial of service attack could take down the Internet. T... (read more)]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:17:22 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Romanians-Could-Take-Down-The-Internet-66825.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Romanians-Could-Take-Down-The-Internet-66825.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Password-Leak-How-the-White-hatter-Did-It-65304.shtml A couple of weeks ago I wrote a material about embassies having low security. Security expert Dan Egerstad has disclosed a vulnerability back then and just to show them that their system was flawed, he posted their e-mail passwords online (where exactly it is not known). And we are talking about more than 100 cases here, embassies for Russia, Uzbekistan... (read more)]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:56:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Password-Leak-How-the-White-hatter-Did-It-65304.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Password-Leak-How-the-White-hatter-Did-It-65304.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/What-039-s-Web-Security-Heading-Towards-65076.shtml Time is money, that's what they say. If you can increase the speed of your business, you can make more money. And how can you speed things up? Use the Internet, of course! Many web analysts predict that the Net will be the business environment of the future. And I tend to agree, with things evolving at this rate, it's bound for businessmen to take things ... (read more)]]> Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:28:02 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/What-039-s-Web-Security-Heading-Towards-65076.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/What-039-s-Web-Security-Heading-Towards-65076.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/More-People-More-Malware-64457.shtml The month of August was full of threats and you would be terrified if you read all the reports, but to be honest with you, this is just the normal level on the Web. We're facing trojans, worms, spam and others daily. A lot of people get infected everyday and that's just a fact. Security experts from Sophos have made a lot of nice charts, in order to explain how malware ... (read more)]]> Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:34:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/More-People-More-Malware-64457.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/More-People-More-Malware-64457.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Properly-Use-UTM-64274.shtml I was searching the web in order to find out more about UTM firewalls and how to use them, when I bumped into something that allowed me to get a better view on how these things work. So, after reading what NetworkWorld had to say about this, here are a few tips on how to deploy these babies.

The first thing to do is to properly manage your firewall. Don't use a ... (read more)]]> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:00:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Properly-Use-UTM-64274.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Properly-Use-UTM-64274.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Is-Insecure-63039.shtml DNS servers have never been renowned for their top notch security system and this is an ongoing fact for years now. But, as seen on eWeek, security experts don't actually give a damn, saying that there are far more important things these days.

Now, for those of us that are not so fond of techie stuff, DNS stands for Domain Name System. What does it actually do, you ask?... (read more)]]> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Is-Insecure-63039.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Is-Insecure-63039.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Alex Dumitru) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Finally-A-Winner-Beats-The-Vulnerable-Apache-60916.shtml Security company Sophos published an interesting report concerning the software solutions used for webservers, revealing that Microsoft's IIS is securer when it comes to the battle with the famous Apache. At this time, Apache is surely the most popular server software application on the Internet with an impressive number of users turning to... (read more)]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:39:36 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Finally-A-Winner-Beats-The-Vulnerable-Apache-60916.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Finally-A-Winner-Beats-The-Vulnerable-Apache-60916.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Bogdan Popa) http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Servers-Are-Under-Fire-2226.shtml
The number and severity of DNS (Domain Name Service) server attacks have risen sharply on networks around the globe, as phishers, pharmers and other malicious code writers embrace the latest way to circumvent traditional forms of mitigation.

Sandvine has observed an increase in server attacks, particularly DNS attacks on broadband networks. DNS servers ar... (read more)]]> Tue, 24 May 2005 20:14:00 GMT Softpedia News - Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Servers-Are-Under-Fire-2226.shtml Server related http://news.softpedia.com/news/DNS-Servers-Are-Under-Fire-2226.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Mihai Herescu)