Linux Servers At Risk From 'serious' Flaw
News The problem, known in security circles as the wu-FTP Globbing Heap Corruption Vulnerability, allows attackers to get remote access to all files on a server, provided they can access the FTP service. The group that discovered the flaw, Core ST...
[November 29, 2001, 8:36]
FTP Holes Give Attackers An Easy Way In
News Flaws in the free file server created by Washington University, known as wu-FTP, led to a large number of last year's defacements. While wu-FTP contains the vulnerable function -- known as "glob()" -- it works in a slightly different way with Linux...
[April 10, 2001, 12:34]
Net Worm Hobbles Linux Servers
News Washington University's version of the common file server, known as wu-FTP, has a flaw that also allows access. When trying to infect Red Hat 6.2 systems, the worm will use the RPC.statd and wu-FTP flaws, according to an analysis completed by...
[January 18, 2001, 7:55]
BlastStation
Downloads BlastStation also performs WU-Blast2 searches using the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) server with the same easy-to-use interface. You can download database files from the NCBI ftp server, create database files from your FASTA files, and...
[March 16, 2006, 23:16]
Software "fixes" Routinely Available But Often Ignored
News Originally discovered in June 2000, the wu-FTP vulnerability still remains a common way for the lowest form of Internet attacker, the "script kiddie", to gain entry to servers. Exploiting a flaw in Washington University's FTP server, the intruder...
[January 24, 2001, 13:37]
BlastStation
Downloads BlastStation also performs WU-Blast2 searches using the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) server with the same easy-to-use interface. You can download database files from the NCBI ftp server, create database files from your FASTA files, and...
[April 10, 2006, 12:31]
MS Opens Source Code To Inspire Trust
News Linux and other Unix-like systems had a major flaw in the WU-FTP server, a popular program for hosting files for downloading. Microsoft, long a proponent of keeping source code secret, plans to publish the source code to a critical part of its...
[June 26, 2002, 11:10]
Networks '97: Cisco Buys Voice, Firewall Firms
News The company is led by Wu Fu Chen, a founder of Cascade. Peter Simkin, chief technical officer of FTP Software, said the deal made sense. First, Cisco said it would purchase Ardent Communications, a California startup specialising in voice over LAN...
[June 25, 1997, 9:41]
Libsafe Guards Against Linux Hijackers
News Buffer overflows have been found in all sorts of system programs and daemons such as syslogd, Sendmail, Apache, WU-FTPD, and BIND, to name but a few. When a user connects to an FTP server, the daemon displays a prompt requesting a username.
[August 7, 2002, 8:52]
Linksys EFG120 review
Reviews The EFG120 unit can act as an FTP server, and it supports Internet-attached storage and Internet-printing protocols, making it easy to access your office data and printer when you're on the road. Despite these advanced features, the EFG120 lacks a...
[May 4, 2004, 15:30]
Buffalo LinkStation Network Storage Center review
Reviews The LinkStation doesn't offer any flavour of RAID, nor does it support the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and it provides neither FTP nor DHCP services. You can get the Buffalo LinkStation Network Storage Center up and running in about 10 minutes.
[April 5, 2004, 10:40]
