Internet Explorer Flaw Implicated in Chinese Attacks

A bug in the browser was a key part of recent attacks by Chinese hackers.
By Erica Naone

George Kurtz, CTO of McAfee Security, revealed new details of the recent attack on Google and other companies in a blog post this afternoon. A “zero-day” bug–a previously undiscovered vulnerability–in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser seems [...]

IP Addresses & Network Reservations For Firewall & IDS Filtration

Tired of being attacked by foreign countries? Here is some useful network assignment information so you can configure your IDS and Firewall against them. Simply block ANY and ALL traffic from network ranges to be safe! Be careful not to block your own neighborhood, unless you really mean to. The list is not complete, but [...]

Is Your Programmer or Network Admin A Hacker? Better Ask!

With the large number of hackers and the increasing threat from overseas hackers, more and more business are at risk for attack and exploitation. There are many types of hackers and certainly many degrees of intent and purpose. The majority of hackers are usually programmers and network security specialists, who likely have a day job [...]

crossdomain.xml Policy File Issues With Flash Player

Does your Flash movie stop working because your links need the crossdomain.xml file, but you can’t place it at the root level?  The crossdomain.xml file can be relocated to non-root locations, and that location can be defined in your Flash movie. The code is at the bottom of this article, and below is some expert [...]

An Overview of Web Application Security

With the web and business web sites accessible by everyone (including malicious hackers) the security of your web application is at the top of the list of security issues on experienced PHP web developers’ minds. Lets look at some security concerns of PHP Security Developers, and what they can do to make their web applications [...]

The Five Phase Approach of Malicious Hackers

Hackers typically approach an attack using five common phases. It is important to understand these phases of hacking attacks in order to better defend against them. Here we’ll discuss the five hacker phases to better understand them and how they relate to each other. This information is useful for network administrators, and essential for network [...]

Preventing spamBots From Harvesting or Scraping Email Addresses From Web Pages

Spam has become a worldwide epidemic, and prevention is the current focus. A day will come when a cure is sought more aggressively than a bandage, but for now companies are making tons of money selling us filters and spam prevention kits. Our approach at the PHP Kemist is to byte back with encrypted or [...]