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Adobe: Flash Exploit Detected

e-tech — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:38:54 +0000

Adobe has warned users of it’s Flash Player of a possible denial of service attack and has urged users to apply an update for it.

The exploit affects what’s called Flash remoting – essentially the provision of server-based application services via Flash, as opposed to via HTML, Active Server Pages or some other wrapper. Though an exploit itself has not yet been discovered, Adobe engineers found that a certain form of Flash remoting command sent to ColdFusion servers (another acquired Macromedia technology) triggers an infinite loop process that will not stop itself.

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Hackers Are Now Targeting Firefox

e-tech — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:31:08 +0000

It was bound to happen one way or the other,hackers have found it worthwhile to now target Mozilla’s Firefox browser.

Hackers made Firefox the latest subject of attack last week, utilizing software TechNet Security Center: Tools & Guidance to Defend Your Network that could capture extremely sensitive information, including credit card numbers and passwords.

On July 25, Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) Latest News about Symantec Security Response detected Infostealer.Snifula, which downloads malicious Trojans onto a user’s computer that can subsequently steal any information the user types into a form on the Web, according to Dave Cole, director of the Symantec Security Response group.

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dang…nothing is secure anymore

Hackers Failed to Deter Alex Tew

e-tech — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:54:30 +0000

Remember Alex Tew?, the owner of Million Dollar Homepage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com).

Yeah, should be fresh in your memory.

Than you would also remember that his site experienced a drastic distributed denial of service attack (ddos).In a recent article by Wired magazine,author David Kushner caught up with Alex, as he explained what happened and how there’s never a “bad” PR, and how the attackers inadvertently did him a favor!.

You can read the full article HERE

Security Fix for Firefox

e-tech — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:27:25 +0000

Despite being rated “non-critical” by security firm Secunia,The Mozilla Corporation will still go ahead and release minor update to Firefox, numbered 1.5.0.3, in order to address a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the most recent version of it’s browser.

The DoS problem affects the latest Firefox 1.5.0.2 build, which was released earlier this month to correct a slew of security-related flaws.

Exploit code for the vulnerability has been released, prompting Firefox developers to quickly patch the browser — even though the risk of attack is minimal. The decision will, however, slightly push back the next Firefox update.

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VeriSign says there’s new style of DoS Attacks

e-tech — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:28:51 +0000

Verisign says there’s a new form of DoS attacks on the horizon.

In the past denial of service (DoS) attacks were done by sending thousands of queries to overwhelm victim PCs. The new attack methodology works by sending requests to domain name servers naming the target of the attack as the place to send details for a DNS query.

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