MetaFilter posts tagged with exploit

Oh shit, I just broke the Internet

Glibpaxman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:43:55 -0800

"There is no saving the internet. There is only postponing the inevitable." Wired Magazine looks at the history of DNS and the Kaminsky attack. Kaminsky, previously Open DNS, previously

lolcatting all the way to the bank

quonsar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:11:34 -0800

goatse hijacked my bank account

And DJB's $500 is safe for another day

Skorgu — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:57:48 -0800

A major flaw in the DNS system is promised to be revealed at the next Black Hat conference. Convinced it was too important to wait, security researcher Dan Kaminsky (video, autoplays) convinced several software vendors to issue emergency patches today, before publicizing details of the attack. It can't be that serious though, can it? Oh yes it can.

Presidential Re-Election through fear mongering

jdaura — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:36:46 -0800

The Last Stage of Delirium Research Group (LSD-PLaNET) have posted code on the Internet that can allow hackers to exploit a previously disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system. This kind of thing happens all the time. What never happened before is a widespread government and media panic perpetuating the buffer overrun threat as terroristic in nature, originating from the Department of Homeland Security and upsetting the gerneral public at large.

tilt — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:52:07 -0800

Do you have a 'Super Cookie' ??? Another m$ screw-up... Very interesting since wmp just minutes before tried to access the net through my firewall that is set to block all except a few programs. If you're running mozilla his demo doesn't hit but using msie it sures pulls up the ID# of my wmp... time to tighten things down again!!! Another blasted waste of time to fix what m$ should not have let out in the first place!!! Link via... Inflight Correction

redleaf — Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:51:32 -0800

Bring down MeFi in one easy step. Matt, does this affect you?

Dean_Paxton — Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:17:56 -0800

More news on the IIS exploit After acknowledging the problem last week, Micro$oft is now saying that the backdoor in IIS... is a flaw. M$ Technet seems to have a fix for this problem, delete the offending file! So, if systems are your bag, my advice is to start researching security if you are running M$ internet server products (SQL 7, Exchange, IIS, Index Server, etc.).