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ISP Panix over domain hijack
News The domain hijack attack happened at the end of August when visitors to the eBay.de site were redirected to a different DNS, meaning that they could not access auctions. A New York Internet service provider said on Sunday it was working to recover...
[January 17, 2005, 7:30]
Teenager admits eBay domain hijack
News The domain hijack attack happened at the end of August when visitors to the eBay.de site were redirected to a different domain name server (DNS), meaning that they could not access auctions. German police said on Saturday that a 19-year-old from...
[September 6, 2004, 15:35]
Teenager admits eBay domain hijack
Talkback Well 'Anonymous' perhaps you should take some responsibility for securing your PC. I assume when you go out you lock the front door to your house? and when you leave your car you lock that as well? The same is true of your PC, I'd recommend a good...
[September 8, 2004, 10:28]
Teenager admits eBay domain hijack
Talkback Well, when he got the message that he was the new owner of the domain - didn't that ring a bell. I just went through a month of problems with my system due to a virus and it was hell! Dell kept referring me to Microsoft; Microsoft referred me to my...
[September 6, 2004, 22:03]
eBay Germany domain hijack: No prosecution imminent
News A school pupil who admitted taking ownership of the eBay Germany domain will not face charges immediately as eBay Germany first wants to investigate the incident further, according to ZDNet Germany. The domain hijacking incident happened at the end...
[September 8, 2004, 17:15]
NTT DoCoMo accused of reverse domain name hijacking
News Japan's NTT DoCoMo was accused by a panel convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of attempting to reverse-hijack the imode.biz domain name after it lost its case to win the name from US telecoms giant AT&T.
[July 9, 2002, 15:50]
Dynamic Pharming Attacks and Locked Same-Origin Policies for Web Browsers
White Papers Dynamic pharming works by hijacking DNS and sending the victim's browser malicious Javascript, which then exploits DNS rebinding vulnerabilities and the name-based same-origin policy to hijack a legitimate session after authentication has taken...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Alarm over 'pharming' attacks review
Reviews Prior to that, in September 2004, a teenager in Germany managed to hijack the domain for eBay.de. Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Qualys, a vulnerability management company, told me recently that pharming is simply a new name for a relatively old...
[February 21, 2005, 9:35]
Google toolbar exposes PCs to attack
News These commands can include altering the toolbar's parameters, which allows the attacker to hijack searches, alter the appearance of the toolbar or uninstall it completely. All a Google Toolbar user would have to do would be to visit a particular...
[August 9, 2002, 11:26]
Microsoft increases Passport security
News The owner of the inbox that email address belongs to can either verify that account or say, 'Hey wait a minute, someone's trying to hijack my email address,' and stop it," Sohn said. The two-domain mechanism also will eliminate the long, hard-to...
[September 3, 2002, 11:06]
Zero-day flaw found in web encryption
News The flaw in the TLS authentication process allows an outsider to hijack a legitimate user's browser session and successfully impersonate the user, the researchers said in a technical paper. This gives an attacker an opening to hijack the data...
[November 5, 2009, 14:54]
When three-factor security isn't enough
News But the minute someone got their hands on DirecTV's private key, thousands of people were able to hijack DirecTV's signal through forged smartcards. In that suit, the original owner of Sex.com Gary Kremen alleges that a con man was able to steal...
[August 7, 2003, 11:50]
Yahoo! and Microsoft traffic 'hijacked'
News He added that the episode proves a computer criminal could "easily" hijack all traffic on a part of the Internet. The flawed DNS entries had been entered long ago into his firm's database over time by customers hoping to hijack traffic, he said.
[January 22, 2001, 13:20]
Phishing, Pharming, and Vishing, Oh My! a Guide to the "INGs" and How to Remain Protected
White Papers The flaw in the DNS (Domain Name System), which acts like the Internet's telephone book, could allow Internet traffic to be secretly redirected so thieves could, for example, hijack a bank's Web address and collect customer passwords.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Gmail 'vulnerability' revealed as phishing scam
News Reports that a purported Gmail vulnerability was being used by unauthorised third parties to hijack domains turned out to be nothing more than a phishing scam, Google announced on Tuesday. In the post, Geek Condition's 'Brandon' wrote that the...
[November 27, 2008, 11:52]
Researcher attempts to unravel Kaminsky DNS flaw
News A warning about the DNS vulnerability, which could allow attackers to hijack web surfing, was publicised earlier this month by researcher Dan Kaminsky. Flake's proposed method starts by sending 'floods' of faked requests to a nameserver, which...
[July 22, 2008, 17:43]
Windows bug may allow network traffic hijacks
News A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said on Saturday. It turns out that an attacker can easily register a proxy server on a network using the Windows Internet Naming...
[March 26, 2007, 8:44]
Comcast subscribers unable to email Russia
News ISPs have weathered criticism for letting spammers hijack their servers to send spam, and are also on the defensive from subscribers on the receiving end of increasing volumes of unsolicited commercial email.
[March 3, 2004, 8:20]
UK a nation of pornographers and spammers
News Staff at the University however say that the email assault was not the work of some porn-crazed student but was in fact due to a security hole that allowed an outsider to hijack the institution's servers and channel.
[October 29, 1999, 13:10]
Look up in anger
Leader Each name depends on an average of 46 servers, and compromising just two servers will hijack 30 percent of names. We have no shortage of people claiming an interest in regulating the Internet -- look at the heat and noise generated by powerful...
[May 2, 2006, 14:00]
