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Hello,
NGSEC is proud to announce the new release of our new product
AntiPharming v1.00 [1] TOTALLY FREE for non-commercial use.
What is Pharming?
"(...)Pharming is the exploitation of a vulnerability in the DNS
server software that allows a hacker to acquire the Domain Name
for a site, and to redirect traffic to that web site to another
web site. DNS servers are the machines responsible for resolving
internet names into their real addresses - the "signposts" of the
internet.
If the web site receiving the traffic is a fake web site, such
as a copy of a bank's website, it can be used to "phish" or steal
a computer user's passwords, PIN number or account number.
AntiPharming Configuration For example, in January, 2005, the Domain
Name for a large New York ISP, Panix, was hijacked to a site in
Australia. In 2004 a German teenager hijacked the eBay.de Domain Name.
Secure e-mail provider Hushmail was also caught by this attack on
24th of April 2005 when the attacker rang up the domain registrar
and gained enough information to redirect users to a defaced
webpage(...)" (Source WikiPedia).
What is AntiPharming?
AntiPharming uses active and passive protections for identifying and
stopping Pharming (Phising variant) attacks.
AntiPharming will actively protect your windows server from pharming
attacks by:
* Denying any user (even Administrator) to write to the hosts file.
* Denying any user (even Administrator) to change your DNS settings.
AntiPharming will passively protect your windows server from pharming
attacks by sniffing on each netowrk interface for DNS replies (both
TCP and UDP) and recheck them against at least with three secure DNS
nameservers.
AntiPharming is TOTALLY FREE for non-commercial use.
This e-mail has been signed with labs@NGSEC PGP key available at:
http://www.ngsec.com/pgp/labs.asc
[1] http://www.ngsec.com/ngproducts/antipharming/
Best Regards,
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NTBugtraq Editor's Note:
Most viruses these days use spoofed email addresses. As such, using an
Anti-Virus product which automatically notifies the perceived sender of a
message it believes is infected may well cause more harm than good. Someone who
did not actually send you a virus may receive the notification and scramble
their support staff to find an infection which never existed in the first
place. Suggest such notifications be disabled by whomever is responsible for
your AV, or at least that the idea is considered.
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