This post comes to you from Lamar Spells of http://foxtrot7security.blogspot.com/. ==================== As more companies fall victim to hacks based on SQL Injection and as the regulatory environment becomes more stringent, more and more companies are implementing network-based Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Shares of one Web Application Firewall maker Imperva (NYSE: IMPV) are up about 40% […]
IDLE scans allow an attacker to scan a victim and frame an inactive host on the internet. The attacker doesn’t transmit packets directly to the victim, but instead uses the idle zombie to measure the victim’s response to a spoofed packet. NMAP currently does this with the -sI command line option. There is a very […]
Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a way to DoS users in China using China’s own firewall/filter against them. To quote the article (linked below), “the Chinese firewall can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks against specific IP addresses within China, including those of the Chinese government itself. The IDS uses a stateless server, […]
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