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Some security experts have dismissed Website seals such as Hacker Safe and ControlScan as more marketing ploy than security, and hackers have fueled the debate by exposing cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on sites proudly emblazoned with seals from Hacker Safe and other security seal providers. (See Hackers Reveal Vulnerable Websites and Are ‘Sealed’ Websites Any Safer?.)

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ARP poisoning, SNMP snarfing, and "fuzzing" are common hacks perpetrated on Ethernet switch gear. Cisco networking expert Jimmy Ray Purser explains how to guard against these hacks.The only thing I enjoy more than seeing my mother-in-law head back to Ohio is hacking Ethernet switches. I do a presentation on hacking switch gear that seems to [...]

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In the industry we discuss at great length the legal risks and ethical responsibilities of the person disclosing an issue, but not enough about the same when it comes to the business itself. I’ve had a hard time getting authoritative answers to some seemingly simple questions, so I figured I’d give the blog a try. [...]

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Denial of service attacks come in two types: Denial of Service attacks (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS). A DoS attack is ‘an attack in which a third party purposely floods a network or website with traffic in order to prevent legitimate access (“Denial of Service”, 2007)’. A DDoS ‘occurs when multiple [...]

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