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eBay Germany domain hijack: No prosecution imminent
News The 19-year-old from Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, confessed last week to requesting a DNS transfer for eBay.de, but claimed that he did not want to cause damage. The teenager claims that he stumbled across Web sites which described how to do a DNS...
[September 8, 2004, 17:15]
Teenager admits eBay domain hijack
News The boy claims to have merely stumbled across Web sites which described how to do a DNS transfer. He claimed that "just for fun" he requested a DNS transfer for several sites including Google.de, Web.de, Amazon.de and eBay.de.
[September 6, 2004, 15:35]
Security through obscurity
News By default, Windows 2000 DNS zones will happily transfer any zone information they have to any server that asks for it, as shown in Figure A.Figure AThis zone can be transferred anywhere upon request.
[January 29, 2003, 8:03]
Sex.com case turning dirty
News David Dolkas, a lawyer for Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich who's representing VeriSign, said that if the judges were asking "is the DNS database somehow representative of an ownership right, the answer is no".
[August 14, 2002, 8:33]
DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
News Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory surveyed 1.3 million DNS servers, and found that more than...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
JNetKits
Downloads Features: Syntax Check DNS/MX Record Check Mail Server Check SMTP (sending) POP3 (receiving) MIME 1.0 (attachments) base 64 encoding SMTP Authentication FTP (File Transfer Protocol). JNetKits is a robust suite of TCP/IP networking components for...
[December 20, 2005, 11:39]
NetScanTools Pro
Downloads Access any name server for DNS records. Find the Authoritative DNS for a domain. Features: Name Server Lookup (NSLOOKUP), Zone Transfer domain listing, Ping, Traceroute, Whois with automatic server selection, Port Scanner, Network Ping Sweep...
[November 17, 2008, 8:46]
How does 'Sender Policy Framework' work?
News You do the former by using an SPF-enabled message transfer agent (MTA), and the latter by registering an SPF record in DNS. An SPF record is a single TXT entry in the DNS for each domain. Next, the 'A' mechanism allows you to specify that any...
[March 17, 2004, 14:40]
Watch for top Linux/Unix threats
News U9 BIND/DNS Of particular note on the Unix side, BIND/DNS vulnerabilities are now number 9 on the top 10 Unix list, down from number one on the original Top 10 list from June 2001. BIND/DNS This DNS server software is widely used and hence a...
[October 22, 2002, 8:29]
Design a Win2K infrastructure with this download
News Then, of course, you have to make decisions about such things as DHCP scope options, WINS tombstoning, and DNS zones. While planning a new Windows 2000 network, I recently tackled this problem by creating a template in Microsoft Excel that allowed...
[April 9, 2003, 10:27]
Stolen data being tunnelled through EU and US
News As is the case with dynamic DNS services, their services can however be abused by various criminal elements. They contained code that sent data to a host name registered through a Chinese dynamic DNS provider.
[September 23, 2008, 12:06]
Microsoft proposes Sender ID to jam spam
News With Caller ID, announced in February 2004, Microsoft proposed that the IP addresses of outgoing mail servers should be added in XML to the domain name server (DNS). Like Caller ID, SPF also used the DNS to provide information about servers that...
[June 28, 2004, 16:20]
AOL filter prevents anonymous email
News Like SPF, Designated Mailers Protocol and Reverse Mail Exchange are designed to change the Domain Name System (DNS) database so that email servers can publish which Internet Protocol (IP) addresses they use to send mail.
[January 22, 2004, 11:20]
FTP not VPN
Blog If your net connection doesn’t provide a fixed IP use as a Dynamic DNS service as I’ve mentioned before in the second from last para. Using FTP to transfer files may be mildly less convenient than saving to a drive letter, it is though inherently...
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
Integration of a NetApp Storage System With a Unix Based LDAP Server
White Papers Widely deployed NDSs are Domain Name Service (DNS), NIS (Network Information Service), etc. LDAP runs over TCP/IP or other connection oriented transfer services. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a common protocol interface to...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Netgear ProSafe DGFV338 review
Reviews It delivers all the advantages of centralised administration for remote offices, teleworkers and small businesses, including dynamic DNS capabilities to facilitate remote access, cameras, games and other hosted services for users with dynamic IP...
[June 14, 2007, 15:03]
One giant step towards ending spam
News SPF uses the domain name service (DNS) to provide information about which servers will send mail on behalf of a particular domain -- in the same way as receiving mail servers are currently specified using Mail Exchange (MX) records.
[March 17, 2004, 14:40]
IronPort C60 review
Reviews As with other email security appliances, the C60 acts as an MTA (Message Transfer Agent) so all that’s needed are small DNS and/or firewall changes. Given its hefty £30,000-plus price tag, you expect something special from the C60, and the hardware...
[November 19, 2004, 8:05]
Tumbleweed MailGate 2.2 review
Reviews To get started, you need to either update DNS to direct mail to the appliance, or program your firewall to forward port 25 (SMTP) to its address. A single 10/100Mbps Ethernet connector is used for LAN attachment and, like many mail server security...
[November 12, 2004, 16:05]
SurfControl RiskFilter E-mail E10 review
Reviews This routing can be managed via DNS or by specifying the target servers manually, depending on the number involved. Here the SurfControl appliance acts as a message transfer agent, intercepting incoming messages for one or more domains or given IP...
[November 12, 2004, 16:05]
