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Security Firm RSA Falls Foul To DNS Hack
News Computer security firm RSA has had one of its Web sites effectively defaced by computer criminals apparently keen to make a point about the insecurity of DNS (Domain Name System) authentication. According to security and encryption expert Brian...
[February 14, 2000, 16:19]
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. A security researcher has come up with an attack method he believes could be used to exploit the...
[July 22, 2008, 17:43]
A Year Ago: Top Level Domain Names Hijacked
News Although many sites have now been returned to normal, technical director of UK Internet company Web DNS Limited Alex Jeffreys points out that some administrators have not been alerted to the problem. The DNS servers for these sites were transferred...
[April 14, 2001, 6:00]
Yahoo! And Microsoft Traffic 'hijacked'
News the Web's site's entry in MyDomains.com DNS table was adjusted. So sometimes ISPs take a shortcut and look at the nearest DNS table instead. The database that includes this information is called a DNS Table.
[January 22, 2001, 13:20]
Top Level Domain Names Hijacked
News Although many sites have now been returned to normal, technical director of UK Internet company Web DNS Limited Alex Jeffreys points out that some administrators have not been alerted to the problem. The DNS servers for these sites were transferred...
[April 14, 2000, 16:19]
Apple Fixes Downloads Vulnerability
News Such techniques include DNS spoofing and DNS Cache Poisoning. One program listens for DNS queries for updates, and when it receives them replies with spoofed packets re-routing them to the attacker's computer.
[July 16, 2002, 10:23]
Attack Code Released For Kaminsky DNS Flaw
News Attack code has been released for a DNS flaw discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. This exploit targets a fairly ubiquitous flaw in DNS implementations which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target...
[July 24, 2008, 15:39]
Drive-by Pharming Poses Security Risk
News If the router had no password or was still using the default password it shipped with, then the JavaScript will send the router a string to change the domain name system (DNS) settings on the router. The DNS system uses resolvers — servers on the...
[February 20, 2007, 16:12]
Attacks Increase On Apache Servers
News Vulnerabilities that are being exploited because of a failure to upgrade Apache itself include the 404 page cross-site scripting bug, which manages wildcard DNS lookups; buffer overflows in the ApacheBench (ab) utility; and htpasswd and htdigest...
[December 11, 2002, 10:59]
Icann Asks VeriSign To Suspend Web Redirect
News On Saturday, the Internet Architecture Board also weighed in on the controversy with an analysis of domain name system (DNS) wildcards. The group recommended that "DNS wildcards should not be used in a zone unless the zone operator has a clear...
[September 22, 2003, 8:35]
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]
VeriSign Relents On Browser 'hijack'
News By adding a wildcard -- a domain name system (DNS) entry that catches any request that doesn't match an address in the database -- VeriSign extended its control to unregistered domains. Based on the information currently available to us, it appears...
[October 6, 2003, 14:20]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred review
Reviews DNS Standard costs £79.99 (inc. DNS 10's 'short' training module takes around 10 minutes to complete. DNS Professional costs £645 and is targeted at enterprises and government organizations, among others.
[August 26, 2008, 13:54]
PageFix DNS Error Fix
Downloads PageFix DNS error fix software fixes websites that display the The page cannot be displayed, Cannot find server or DNS Error in Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you are able to visit certain Web pages on your laptop or on another computer but not on...
[October 11, 2006, 10:31]
MailBee.NET SMTP
Downloads MailBee.NET SMTP enables .NET applications to compose, mail merge, and send mails to SMTP server or directly to recipients (via DNS MX Lookup). TLS/SSL, HTML mail with embedded images, ESMTP, proxy, send a Web page, send with a single line of code...
[January 18, 2008, 1:18]
DynWebLink Client
Downloads The service is a bit like dynamic DNS, with some advantages, for users running a server with a changing external IP address. DynWebLink shows your current IP address on a password protected Web page. You can add dynamic links to the server.
[November 5, 2007, 5:16]
AOL Pagetest
Downloads Included in the waterfall display are the DNS lookup times, Socket connect times as well as each http request. It also provides the fule request and response headers for each request.Unique to page test is an Optimization Checklist that scores your...
[June 5, 2008, 23:31]
Drive-By Pharming
White Papers Unfortunately, by visiting a malicious web page, a person can inadvertently open up his router for attack; settings on the router can be changed, including the DNS servers used by the members of this small, quickly erected internal network.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
PlanetDNS Client
Downloads PlanetDNS Client utilizes advanced dynamic DNS technology to provide you with the equivalent of a static IP address without the need to ever again use an IP poster to publish your current IP address to a Web page.
[December 27, 2004, 8:31]
27 Tools-in-1 Wichio Browser
Downloads Wichio features Screen Capture (multiple captures without pasting), Download Manager (for groups of images, audio or video files; it also resumes broken downloads), IP-URL Checker (includes Whois, Traceroute, and DNS lookup), E-mail Alert, Web...
[June 25, 2008, 4:16]
