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Month: December 2011

What is the Akamai Name Server I see for some big companies?

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Hanan N.

I have played with DNS a lot lately, and I have found that some big companies’ web sites use the Akamai NS as the Name Server for their WWW servers, for example:

$>nslookup
> www.redhat.com
Server: 192.168.43.1
Address: 192.1… Continue reading What is the Akamai Name Server I see for some big companies?→

Posted in cdn, DDoS, dns

WORM media types

Posted on December 10, 2011 by soandos

Why types of media are Write Once Read Many (WORM) other than CD-R, and DVD-R, say, something in the 100GB range?

Are there such devices?

What would it take to read them?

Are the devices like this that can do their one wri… Continue reading WORM media types→

Posted in Hardware, storage

Is using a flash drive as a base for security a safe thing to do?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by FreeSnow

I’m developing some software for schools. I’ve found severe flaws with the current popular school LAN protection that I feel needs fixing so I plan on releasing my own software. One the those problems was that if a student … Continue reading Is using a flash drive as a base for security a safe thing to do?→

Posted in authentication, passwords

Is there a way to sniff packets of a remote IP address?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Hanan N.

I would like to know if sniffing packets of a remote IP address is possible at all, if yes I would like to know:

what is the success rate, I mean how much percent of the packets you would capture?
What are the benefits of … Continue reading Is there a way to sniff packets of a remote IP address?→

Posted in sniffer

Is there a way to sniff packets of a remote IP address?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Hanan N.

I would like to know if sniffing packets of a remote IP address is possible at all, if yes I would like to know:

what is the success rate, I mean how much percent of the packets you would capture?
What are the benefits of … Continue reading Is there a way to sniff packets of a remote IP address?→

Posted in sniffer

CVE-2011-4346 (satellite)

Posted on December 10, 2011 by National Vulnerability Database

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web interface in Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field of the asset tag in a Custom Info page. Continue reading CVE-2011-4346 (satellite)→

Posted in Uncategorized

CVE-2011-4315 (fedora, nginx, studio, studio_onsite, webyast)

Posted on December 8, 2011 by National Vulnerability Database

Heap-based buffer overflow in compression-pointer processing in core/ngx_resolver.c in nginx before 1.0.10 allows remote resolvers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long response. Continue reading CVE-2011-4315 (fedora, nginx, studio, studio_onsite, webyast)→

Posted in Uncategorized

CVE-2011-4539 (debian_linux, dhcp, ubuntu_linux)

Posted on December 8, 2011 by National Vulnerability Database

dhcpd in ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.2.3-P1 and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R4 does not properly handle regular expressions in dhcpd.conf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request packet. Continue reading CVE-2011-4539 (debian_linux, dhcp, ubuntu_linux)→

Posted in Uncategorized

Can the numbers on RSA SecurID tokens be predicted?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by wim

My workplace uses these SecurID tokens which provide you with a temporary password, the code will expire after a short time. I have always been fascinated by the things, because it seems as though all the logic to calculat… Continue reading Can the numbers on RSA SecurID tokens be predicted?→

Posted in Cryptography, random

Modern high quality password dictionary [closed]

Posted on December 8, 2011 by coder69

Has anyone come across any good password dictionary lately? Some of the lists I found dated back to 90’s! Some are simply too big that I doubt their quality. I am looking for something hopefully free!

Continue reading Modern high quality password dictionary [closed]→

Posted in passwords

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