The Dangers Faced By Modern Web Applications. Here's an interesting article on the Google security blog about the dangers faced by modern web applications when hosting any user supplied data.
The surprising conclusion is that it's apparently almost impossible to host images or text files safely unless you use a completely separate domain. Is it really that bad? Google writes: Our applications host a variety of web content on behalf of our users, and over the years we learned that even something as simple as serving a profile image can be surprisingly fraught with pitfalls. Today, we wanted to share some of our findings about content hosting, along with the approaches we developed to mitigate the risks. Historically, all browsers and browser plugins were designed simply to excel at displaying several common types of web content, and to be tolerant of any mistakes made by website owners. BackTrack 5 R3 Released - Download Now ! Computer Networking Blogs. Networking. Hacking/Cracking. Blogs. Society Hacks.
Hackers & hacking. Huge spam botnet Grum is taken out by security researchers. 19 July 2012Last updated at 07:09 ET The Grum botnet was made up of more than 120,000 infected computers, researchers said A botnet which experts believe sent out 18% of the world's spam email has been shut down, a security firm said. Grum's control servers were mainly based in Panama, Russia and Ukraine.
Security company FireEye and spam-tracking service SpamHaus worked with local internet service providers (ISPs) to shut down the illegal network. Network ,Hack,tools sites. Computer & Site Security. IT Security/Etc.