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Firefox and Opera Drop WebSocket Support over Security Issues

Mozilla and Opera developers plan to disable WebSocket support in Firefox 4 and Opera 11 because the protocol has been proven vulnerable to attacks.The security issue was discovered by researchers Adam Barth, David Huang, Eric Chen, Eric Rescorla and Collin Jackson, and was documented in a paper released at the end o...

9 December 2010
06:30 GMT

IsoHunt Repairs Recent Outage

isoHunt, one of the biggest BitTorrent search engines around, was faced yesterday, September 7th, 2009, with huge problems that took it offline for half a day. The administrators were quick to react, repairing the problem and keeping users up-to-date. The problem appeared because of a caching anomaly in the forum, w...

8 September 2009
03:06 GMT

DNS Poisoning Attack Against Major Brazilian ISP

The broadband Internet service of NET Serviços de Comunicação (NET Communications Services), called NET Vírtua, was the target of unnamed attackers earlier this month. According to Brazilian media outlet Globo.com, NET's DNS cache has been poisoned to serve a banking trojan to Virtua ...

27 April 2009
06:35 GMT

Unprecedented Security Improvements to Combat DNS Cache Poisoning

Nominum Inc., one of the companies that provides network naming and addressing solutions, has released a security update for its Vantio DNS server platform that is supposed to offer unprecedented protection against DNS cache poisoning attacks. According to the company, the new revolutionary security features reduce t...

1 September 2008
06:43 GMT

U.S. Plans to Deploy DNSSEC

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 dep...

29 August 2008
09:29 GMT


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