New Iteration of TDSS/TDL-4 Botnet Uses Domain Fluxing to Avoid Detection

A new version of the TDSS/TDL-4 botnet is rapidly growing, primarily because it’s having great success using an evasion technique known as a domain generation algorithm DGA to avoid detection, researchers at Damballa Security revealed today. The algorithm helps the latest version of the botnet...

CVE-2003-1058

The CVE concerns the Xsun server on Sun Solaris (versions 2.6–9) when running in Direct Graphics Access (DGA) mode. A local user can trigger a denial-of-service (Xsun crash) or gain the ability to create/overwrite arbitrary files, probably via a symlink attack on temporary server files. Affected ...