Palin hacking probe: What's next?
The intensity of the probe into the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail has subsided but big questions remain
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Initiating Probes Against Servers Via Other Servers
...probe page that is designed to detect if there are open ports and what the threats are associated with that port. It is protected from nefarious purposes by only scanning the port of the IP address you are originating from. Then I thought, wait, I can come from anywhere that I can get to request this page. The first page that came to mind?...
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Massive SQL Injection Attacks - the Chinese Way
2008-10-21 16:18:48 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...probe into the Web site ranking points
added, "VBS upload to download", "upload directory Web site viewer," "FTP upload to download configuration file" function to make it more convenient for the sa rights to use the site
New "sequence document scanners
What is the sequence document scanners role? Upload to find loopholes, some of the...
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs
...probe requests for nonbroadcasting networks. These probes are similar to unencrypted 802.11 association frames, and will generate clear-text responses from the access points if a nonbroadcasting network is present. You can reduce, but not entirely eliminate, these probes by configuring the wireless client to probe only for...
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Benevolent Worms
...probe others to find new hosts. Most existing worms randomly probe computers when looking for new hosts to infect, but that is inefficient, says Vojnovic, because they waste time exploring groups or "subnets" of computers that contain few uninfected hosts
This idea pops up every few years. This is what I wrote back in 2003, updating something...
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Cyber Storm Details
...probe or attack the game computers
Any time you get a group of (information technology) experts together, there's always a desire, 'Let's show them what we can do,'" said George Foresman, a former senior Homeland Security official who oversaw Cyber Storm. "Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the...
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Anton Security Tip of the Day #14: More accesslog Fun: What Are You Not GETting?
...probe for it now is beyond me. In any case, Apache on Linux and "*.exe" don't mix
The final log record is also fun
10.10.101.222 - - [12/Feb/2008:15:33:22 -0800] " PUT /zk.txt HTTP/1.0" 405 223 "-" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1
The above uses a PUT request which is pretty much deprecated now; the purpose of the...
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Top 10: Spitzer falls, Bebo goes to AOL, Gates to DC
1. Eliot Spitzer: High-tech felt his impact and Oliver North ridicules Spitzer, calls on IT to hire war vets: It might not have seemed at first that the saga of almost-former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer had any connection to IT, but when he was attorney general of that state, he targeted the high-tech and networking industries in various...
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates
...probes
Reference URL
MSNBC News Story
Associated Press Story
Stanley, Inc. Official Company Statement
Statement from The Analysis Corporation
Report Credit
Associated Press, posted to The Breach Blog through the kind urging of an informed reader
Response
From the online sources cited above
State Department employees snooped through the...
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