Hackers are now actively exploiting a critical flaw in the Domain Name System, but they’re not using any of the already known exploits, said a researcher who crafted the first attack code to go public.
“We’re seeing an entirely new technique,” said HD Moore, the creator of the Metasploit penetration testing framework, who with a hacker identified as “I)ruid,” published exploits last week for the vulnerability in the Internet’s routing system.
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In its final year of planning the event, Interjuncture (interjuncture.com) hosts the final day of the hosted services industry’s largest conference and trade show, HostingCon 2008 (hostingcon.com), from Chicago’s Navy Pier.
iNET Interactive (inetinteractive.com), which acquired HostingCon earlier this month, will take full control in planning the event from here on out, starting with HostingCon 2009.
The day begins with a keynote presentation entitled “Sealing the Deal,” moderated by David Snead, an attorney and fellow WHIR writer, as well as feature a panel of experts which includes HostMySite.com CSO Lou Honick, DH Capital managing director Paul Stapleton, and Cheval Capital president Francis Stiff.
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IOActive (ioactive.com) director of penetration testing Dan Kaminsky advises immediate patching following the accidental leak of specific technical details of a domain name service flaw he discovered earlier in the month, eWeek reports.
The details were posted on a well-read blog July 21 despite Kaminsky’s plans to keeping the specifics of his discovery secret until the Black Hat conference in August. A hacker can use a DNS attack to redirect page requests to phishing sites or other malicious pages.
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(Nova Scotia, Canada) – DemoWolf (www.demowolf.com) has made two significant acquisitions this week, acquiring competitors OnlyDemos.com and CheapDemos.com, in two separate transactions. The acquisition of these two brands will help solidify DemoWolf as the market leader in providing branded tutorials to the hosting industry.
As is the case with DemoWolf, OnlyDemos.com (www.onlydemos.com) produces flash support tutorials for the hosting industry. Established in 2003, OnlyDemos has a library of over 300 hosting tutorials that can be branded for any hosting company. Available tutorials include cPanel/WHM, H-Sphere, Ensim, RVskin, ModernBill, WHMAutoPilot, FTP, DNS, Fantastico, and PerlDesk tutorials, as well as tutorials in Spanish and Dutch. › Continue reading…
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