Saturday, March 5, 2005

Dan Gillmor on Apple persecuting rumor sites Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc. blogs The Gathering Storms Over Speech. "Apple Computer's disgusting attack on three online journalism sites, in a witch hunt to find out who (if anyone) inside the company leaked information about allegedly upcoming products, has taken a nasty turn. Too bad it's not surprising -- and journalists of all kinds should be paying attention." 6:46:03 PM    comment []

Symantec Firewall DNS caching exploited Breaking news... it appears that Symantec firewalls with DNS caching enabled have been exploited and are being used in a DNS cache poisoning scheme to redirect users to malicious sites where their machines are being exploited with ActiveX-containing toolbars. My suggestions: Disable DNS caching Replace the Symantec firewall if possible Stop using IE. Details, sketchy as they are, at: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-03-04 9:43:08 AM    comment []

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