On 3 October 2007, Sun announced several critical security updates for
the Java Runtime Environment. In particular, describes how network access restrictions can be circumvented to connect to arbitrary hosts by utilizing DNS rebinding. The paper at Stanford University’s Protecting Browsers from DNS Rebinding Attacks page summarizes some of the current research into the [...]
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Posted in Security, Tor on Sep 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
The developers of the network security tool Tor issued a warning telling all users to upgrade early August 2007. Tor-developer Roger Dingledine has now disclosed what was wrong with previous version of Tor in regard to basic security. It turns out that evil attacker running a Tor exit node or a website could simply POST [...]
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Posted in Security, Tor on Aug 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
The’re actually announceing it, they’ve already put it in place and you and your familly are now granted access to Tor version 0.1.2.16 by the Tor developers.
You must buy it now
Official Tor story regarding security of current versions of Tor and good reasons to upgrade is this:
Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that [...]
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