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Firewalls On Your Windows Servers

2008-07-06 08:37:16 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Servers directly accessible on the Internet and around 124,000 Oracle database servers directly accessible on the Internet. " Egad! That's almost certainly not a good thing. Many of them are accessible by accident and many of them are run by just plain incompetent people; 4% of the SQL servers were so old they were still vulnerable to the...
 
Tags: servers, sql servers, sql servers secure, server, windows server, firewall, network firewall policies, windows firewall, litchfield
 
 
 
 
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Firewalls on Your Windows Servers

2008-07-06 08:37:16 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Servers directly accessible on the Internet and around 124,000 Oracle database servers directly accessible on the Internet. " Egad! That's almost certainly not a good thing. Many of them are accessible by accident and many of them are run by just plain incompetent people; 4 percent of the SQL servers were so old they were still vulnerable to...
 
Tags: servers, sql servers, sql servers secure, server, windows server, firewall, network firewall policies, windows firewall, litchfield
 
 
 
 
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Software makes virtual servers a moving target

2008-06-19 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Carefully managed virtual servers can make the job of attackers more difficult by reducing the time that any one version of a server is exposed to the Internet, according to a George Mason University professor who has developed software that phases virtual servers in and out of use
 
Tags: virtual servers, phases virtual servers, software, internet, attackers, version, time, job, server
 
 
 
 
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Compromised Web Servers Serving Fake Flash Players

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2008-08-05 14:50:04 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...servers whose vulnerable web applications allow a malicious attacker to locally host a malicious campaign is nothing new. In fact, malicious attackers have been building so much confidence in this risk-forwarding process of hosting their campaigns, that they would start actively spamming the links residing within low-profile legitimate sites...
 
Tags: file, html file, html, comtopnews, detopnews, windows media player, player, web, real player exploit
 
 
 
 
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Attack against Linux Apache servers intensifying

2008-01-22 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful because its break-in method makes use of an automated password and installation process, according to a security researcher monitoring its progress
 
Tags: mass attack, past month, increasingly successful, installation process, break-in method, security researcher, progress, password
 
 
 
 
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Use of Rogue DNS Servers on Rise

2008-02-15 02:20:08 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
They're called "servers that lie." Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks, according to a paper published this week by researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Inc
 
Tags: reroute internet traffic, fraudulent web sites, launch attacks, georgia institute, servers, mendacious machines, google, week, researchers
 
 
 
 
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Replicating virtual servers vulnerable to attack

2008-02-15 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
One of the most attractive features of virtualization -- the ability to replicate virtual servers on the fly to meet demand -- has a big security downside -- from data theft to denial of service -- according to a talk scheduled for the Black Hat DC 2008 conference next week in Washington, D.C
 
Tags: virtual servers, security downside, attractive features, data theft, black hat, denial, week, service, virtualization
 
 
 
 
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Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker?

2008-02-24 12:36:31 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Guardian has a two page spread on the background of some of the Wikileaks people, the Wikileaks scheme for "an open-source democratic intelligence agency" and the possible location of its secret servers an abandoned US nuclear weapons base at Greenham Common and a radar station in
 
Tags: nuclear weapons base, page spread, greenham common, wikileaks scheme, radar station, wikileaks people, secret servers, location, background
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford says malware planted on its store servers stole card data

2008-03-28 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
In a letter to Massachusetts officials, Hannaford Bros. disclosed that the intruders who stole credit and debit card numbers from its systems did so by planting malware on all of its store servers
 
Tags: store servers, hannaford bros, malware, debit card, massachusetts officials, intruders, credit, letter, systems