Top level domain explosion could wreak mayhem on net
A plan to populate the Internet with hundreds or thousands of new top-level domains has security researchers pondering some of the unintended consequences that could be exploited by online criminals. Mayhem might result from addresses that end in “exchange,” “mailserver,”…
Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned
A backdoor was discovered in the source code of a widely used FTP package. Version 2.3.4 of the source code for vsftpd – billed as probably the most secure and fastest FTP server for Unix-like systems – was replaced with…