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Unexpected Attack Vectors
Scott Granneman, 2005-02-09

A new round of attacks and phishing attempts use some unexpected attack vectors that we should have been paying attention to, but weren't.

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Unexpected Attack Vectors 2005-02-10
Phil
Unexpected Attack Vectors 2005-02-10
Anonymous
Old news, in new article.

Security is a proces.

In this proces you don't take counter measures to prevent some small attack vectors, but you deny anythink you don't want.

If you allow your users to download things, if you allow your users to open ssl tunnels, if you allow your users to send any http header to any url, then you never can be secure.

By disallowing downloads, direct ssl and using (reverse) proxies with filters for anything but [a-Z] . [0-9] you are save for most attack vectors, the known and the not known.

Waiting untill your vendor fixes things is not an option.

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Unexpected Attack Vectors 2005-02-10
Anonymous
As predicted 2005-02-10
Barrie Dempster (1 replies)
As predicted 2005-02-16
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