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Man-in-the-Middle Attack on MySpace with Cain

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the caught-with-yer-pants-down dept.

Slimjim100 writes "Last year at ChicagoCon 2007, Brian Wilson gave a great talk entitled "Cain & Abel: Windows Can Hack, Too!" Although the presentation and audio recording of the talk can be downloaded from the ChicagoCon site at Library, I had totally forgotten to publish his videos. Just in case things didn't go as planned during the live event or his laptop crapped out on him, Brian made a video of the MITM attack he demonstrated using Cain. You get to see how Myspace and other social networking sites are not designed with security in mind."

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  1. BSD problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Realistically it is fair to say that FreeBSD is beset with many problems. And sad to say, but it would seem that there is no realistic hope for things to improve.

    The one small glimmer of mince espoir is that long overdue work on FreeBS D's woefully neglected TCP/IP stack is scheduled to begin in the coming months. According the current status report, the FreeBSD TCP/IP code has become unmaintainable, and in need of a complete rewrite. The blue ribbon report suggested that this is one of the major bottlenecks which has caused the ongoing decline in FreeBSD performance.

    Can they fix it? Or is it to late? We will have to wait and see. And it may be a very long wait.