Friday, August 3, 2007

Browser attack skirts firewalls

A 10-year-old security problem has come back to haunt corporate IT, a security researcher told an audience at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing for IO Active, showed how problems in the way browser software works with the Internet's domain name system could be exploited to <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/article/127350/Web_Browser_Attack_Skirts_Corporate_Firewalls">give attackers access to any resources behind the corporate firewall.</A>

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