There has been a long history of attacks on the Domain Name System ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS cache-poisoning attack was unveiled that is considered especially dangerous because it does not require substantial bandwidth or processor resources nor does it require sophisticated techniques……..
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October 21st, 2008 by Elpidios
The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion. The $25 billion figure is one that I’m surprised at because its lower than other forecasts I’ve seen over the years.
Or is it? I’m not sure how the Linux Foundation has compiled their numbers [...]
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October 21st, 2008 by Stefano
Just weeks after a BusinessWeek Web site was hit by an SQL injection (define) attack, comes news that Adobe has had to deal with two of its Web sites compromised the same way.
“I can confirm that the Adobe sites were affected,” Richard Wang, manager of the US offices of security vendor Sophos Laboratories. Sophos discovered [...]
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October 21st, 2008 by Stefano