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Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web
AFP ^
| July 09, 2008
Posted on 07/09/2008 9:52:41 PM PDT by george76
Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.
Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way computers are routed to web page addresses.
"It's a very fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the Internet works," ...
"You'd have the Internet, but it wouldn't be the Internet you expect. (Hackers) would control everything."
The flaw would be a boon for "phishing" cons that involve leading people to imitation web pages of businesses such as bank or credit card companies to trick them into disclosing account numbers, passwords and other information.
"An attacker with the ability to conduct a successful cache poisoning attack can cause a nameserver's clients to contact the incorrect, and possibly malicious, hosts for particular services," CERT said.
"Consequently, web traffic, email, and other important network data can be redirected to systems under the attacker's control."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: computersecurity; internet; internetsecurity
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To: MeekOneGOP; devolve
Not the IRS. People who have been on the Birth Certificate threads have commented - more than comments from one or two!
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posted on
07/10/2008 7:31:17 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: devolve
Missed this from late last night. There was a thread yesterday that I should have bookmarked. It was about ‘fixing’ a flaw in the internet that leaves it open to hacking.
Anyone smart enough to hack into government business can figure out another way I would think.
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posted on
07/10/2008 7:34:40 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: george76; devolve
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posted on
07/10/2008 7:52:36 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: potlatch; SatinDoll; LucyT
MUCH More serious !
It will be getting worse soon.
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posted on
07/10/2008 9:02:40 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/10/2008 10:20:39 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76; ShadowAce; HAL9000
These tech folk are keeping secrets better than WE THE PEOPLE are ensuring our sworn public officials do, who incidentally need to be more protective than ever of the US-created Internet.
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posted on
07/10/2008 11:16:01 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: potlatch; All
Make Alligator Turds!
...;0)
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posted on
07/10/2008 11:27:02 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: SatinDoll; devolve; potlatch; Fiddlstix; y'all
The flaw would be a boon for "phishing" cons that involve leading people to imitation web pages of businesses such as bank or credit card companies to trick them into disclosing account numbers, passwords and other information.
- - - - - - - - - - -
Our family used to go on a LOT of fishing trips when I was a kid. I don't think it's the same thing, though, huh ???
:)
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posted on
07/11/2008 6:31:38 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz!)
To: george76
Based on the amount of spam we get at work, I’d say they already have.
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posted on
07/11/2008 11:13:30 AM PDT
by
PsyOp
(Truth in itself is rarely sufficient to make men act. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)
To: george76; devolve
Much as we abhor Hillary, this wasn't happening with her - or perhaps her ‘people’ were better hackers, lol.
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posted on
07/11/2008 5:40:27 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; devolve
Yikes, protect our Yorkies!
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posted on
07/11/2008 5:41:55 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: MeekOneGOP; devolve
Lol, your fishing trips weren’t illegal.
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posted on
07/11/2008 5:43:05 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: potlatch
...;0)
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posted on
07/11/2008 7:05:36 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: potlatch
.
Hmmmmm
Finally opened
Perfect Piper pix post potlatch
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posted on
07/11/2008 7:13:26 PM PDT
by
devolve
(- Education: - Harvard Law School Affirmative Action -)
To: potlatch
hehe!
Yep.
Never been “Phishing” before...
I wonder whut they use for bait? :)
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posted on
07/11/2008 10:15:36 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz!)
To: MeekOneGOP; devolve
[Never been Phishing before...
I wonder whut they use for bait? :)]
PERMS!
Curly little worms.....snicker.
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posted on
07/12/2008 10:45:30 AM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: george76
They mean the World Wide Web rather than the Internet, don’t they? WWW is a piece of @#$%, always has been. The Intenet got along just fine before WWW. BTW, what’s up with closing the usenet groups?
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posted on
07/12/2008 10:52:13 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: devolve
Potlatch posts ‘purdy’ pet pup pix!
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posted on
07/12/2008 10:52:20 AM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; devolve
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posted on
07/12/2008 10:53:50 AM PDT
by
potlatch
(MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
To: potlatch
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posted on
07/12/2008 11:22:27 AM PDT
by
devolve
(- Education: - Harvard Law School Affirmative Action -)
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