If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the DNS vulnerability that Dan Kaminsky announced about a half year ago. The plan was that Kaminsky would be working with DNS server vendors to provide a patch, giving ample time for administrators to upgrade before the details of the exploit were released later this year. Unfortunately the exploit was leaked prematurely, causing a general freak-out mode amongst people that administer DNS systems.
When I read the article on Slashdot, the "all name servers should be patched as soon as possible" quote dropped a bit of scare on me too. What about my sad little DNS server? I envisioned spending an evening working through a time consuming process of patching and reconfiguring things that I haven’t had to touch in years. Much to my pleasant surprise, djbdns, D. J. Bernstein’s DNS server, was not vulnerable. My decision to use djbdns a number of years ago was primarily due to his vocal philosophy of ...
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Dns is de wereldwijde ruggengraat van het internet. Een 26-jarige IT-consultant Dan Kaminsky vond begin 2008 toevallig een belangrijke fout in het dns-concept waardoor al het webverkeer op het internet kan omgeleid worden en onderschept door malafide hackers. Wat zou zorgen voor een ineenstorting van e-banking, e-commerce...
Gelukkig is er de afgelopen maanden een ultra-geheim A-team aan DNS-specialisten (Nederlanders, Duitsers, Finnen, Amerikanen...) opgebouwd en hebben ze de nodige patche... more
Meet Dan Kaminsky. Deze man heeft het Internet gered. Hij liep tegen een ongeloofelijke security bug op in het DNS ssysteem, het hart van het Internet. Straf verhaal...
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Wired Magazine has published an outstanding piece on Dan Kaminsky’s ( IOActive Director, Penetration Testing Services ) discovery, announcement and subsequent mitigation of the now well-known DNS Cache Poisoning Exploit. Included in the story are some of the main actors ( Vixie , Gustafsson, etc.) in the underpinnings of the interwebs… Read a short snippet of the Wired story, (I have also included a short YouTube video featur... more
It looks like a lot of work has been done in the last month toward building a C-like programming environment for the Mindstorms NXT brick. While ditching the graphical programming environment isn’t the best thing for everyone, if you’ve used NQC for the original Mindstorms, you know how many hacking opportunities it exposed, even with it using the same underlying firmware. And frankly, for a lot of us, C is just a more comfortable programming language.
Not eXactly C (NXC... more
Apropos of my previous post today , in which I mentioned that Stikkit would "likely be the source of great productivity hacks in the future," I’m happy to report that the future begins in earnest now . Just in from Stikkit HQ , Rael tips us off to the brand-new Stikkit API : As much as we believe in how Stikkit "thinks" about your data, only you know how to best organize your notes so they work for you. The Stikkit API lets you "get at" your Stikkit data so you can shape it... more
CWF wrote: "My students are all very innocent and naive users of Windows XP. What I have in mind is to leave them each with a Linux LiveCD or two that they’ll be able to use as a rescue disc in case they get malware installing itself. So, the best way to teach this, I think, would be to purposely infect their machines and then go in a disinfect them.
But I’m not at all sure where I could get a virus or a trojan or other malware. Is it possible you could direct me to a sour... more
If you use Google Notifier on your Mac to keep tabs on your Gmail messages and Google Calendar events but are disappointed by the limit of messages/events the Notifier shows before banishing the rest to a "View more..." submenu, this hack’s for you. MacInformant points to this useful Easter egg divulged by David Phillip Oster, one of the official Mac Software Engineers at Google, to change the limit to any number you’d like :
Pull down the Notifier menu (either C... more
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