Metasploit Registrar Duped by Social Engineering, Not Fax

The registrar for the Metasploit and Rapid7 websites, both of which were victims of a DNS hijacking attack on Friday, was not duped by a spoofed change request sent via fax as it originally reported. Instead, a Register.com employee likely fell victim to a social engineering scam that resulted in...

Phony Fax Leads to Metasploit, Rapid7 DNS Hijacking

A pro-Palestine hacker collective went old-school in its takedown of the Metasploit and Rapid7 websites today. Metasploit creator and HD Moore confirmed via Twitter that Metasploit.com was hacked via a spoofed DNS change request sent via fax to its registrar, Register.com. “Hacking like it’s 1964...

DDoS Attack Takes Down DNS Provider Network Solutions

A distributed denial of service attack knocked the website of the domain name registrar Network Solutions LLC offline this morning and affected an unknown number of its clients’ sites as well. Network Solutions announced on its Facebook page that it was experiencing a DDoS attack just before 11...

Network Solutions' Systems Back Online Following DDoS Attacks

Web host and domain name registry Network Solutions reports that all of its systems are working today following two denial-of-service DDoS attacks earlier this week. The first DDoS attack hit their services Monday afternoon, June 21, while a consecutive attack occurred on Tuesday morning, June 21...

Google and Godaddy Head Coalition Against Rogue Pharmacies

Herbal Viagra peddlers beware: Google and GoDaddy are coordinating the establishment of a non-profit organization dedicated to curbing the spread of illegal online pharmaceutical companies. The two firms plan to share information and work together to educate consumers about the dangers of buying...

On the Network Solutions Hack and Smartphone Attacks

In the long-awaited return of the News Wrap podcast, Threatpost’s newest editor, Paul Roberts, makes his debut as he and Dennis Fisher discuss the Network Solutions parked domains hack, the troubling attacks emerging on smartphone platforms and the odd story of a Trojan-infected PC being linked t...

Hack Puts Spotlight on Malware's Long Tail: Parked Domains

They’re the dusty corners of the Web: so-called “parked” domains. But these little trafficked sites are attracting the attention of security experts, who say that it’s time for hosting firms and others that profit from them to clean up malware infections that may be exposing millions of Web users...

Network Solutions Malicious Widget May Date to January

usan Wade, Dir. of PR for Network Solutions, Herndon, Virginia. 703.668.5057 || Web hosting firm NetworkSolutions confirmed on Monday that it had unwittingly served up a malicious Web site widget on customers’ inactive or “parked” Web domains, but the company said that it still didn’t know how ma...

Network Solutions Hacked By Widget

Hundreds of thousands of Web sites parked at NetworkSolutions.com have been serving up malicious software thanks to a tainted widget embedded in the pages, a security company warned over the weekend. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Net Solutions' Hack Heightens Role of ISP in App Layer Security

According to research, the malicious iframe used in the latest Network Solutions attack pointed to corpadsinc.com which then downloads Adobe exploits onto victims’ machines. The hacks raise an issue increasingly being faced by Website owners: what’s the responsibility of the ISP or service or clo...

Network Solutions' Customers Hacked Again

A week after Web hosting company Network Solutions dealt with a large-scale infection of WordPress-driven blogs, the company acknowledged that other sites it hosts have been compromised. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Network Solutions' Customers Hacked, Defaced

Web site domain registrar and hosting provider Network Solutions acknowledged that hackers had broken into its servers and defaced hundreds of customer Web sites. The hackers appear to have replaced each site’s home page with anti-Israeli sentiments and pictures of masked militants and armed with...

Domain name hijacking an attack technique detailed answers-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

近期 发现 adobe.com,internet.com,nike.com,etc. of the famous sites are points exposed to attack, But the attackers of the use of technology is not to be used in the invasion ofthe WEB server,change the home page's dominant hand Method,the attacker uses a domain name hijacking an attack technique,the...

CVE-2001-0913

CVE-2001-0913 : A format-string vulnerability in Network Solutions Rwhoisd ≤ 1.5.7.2 (when using syslog) allows remote attackers to trigger memory corruption and possibly execute arbitrary code via a rwhois request containing format specifiers. The issue is caused by improper handling of format s...

CVE-2001-0838

Format string vulnerability in Network Solutions Rwhoisd 1.5.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -soa command...

CVE-2001-0838

Network Solutions Rwhoisd 1.5.x is affected by a remote format-string vulnerability in the -soa handling, allowing arbitrary code execution. Root cause: format string vulnerability in the server’s error/format handling. Impact: remote code execution with the privileges of the RWhoisd process; pot...

CVE-2001-0838

Format string vulnerability in Network Solutions Rwhoisd 1.5.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -soa command...

CVE-2001-0913

Format string vulnerability in Network Solutions Rwhoisd 1.5.7.2 and earlier, when using syslog, allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a rwhois request that contains format specifiers...

NSI Rwhoisd 1.5 - Remote Format String

NSI Rwhoisd 1.5 - Remote Format String // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3474/info Rwhoisd is a publicly available RWHOIS server daemon for Unix based systems developed and maintained by Network Solutions Inc. Rwhoisd contains a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability. It is...

NSI Rwhoisd 1.5 - Remote Format String

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3474/info Rwhoisd is a publicly available RWHOIS server daemon for Unix based systems developed and maintained by Network Solutions Inc. Rwhoisd contains a remotely exploitable format string vulnerability. It is possible to overwrite memory by if a...