digital8
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 Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject: Data 'smuggling' opens websites to attack |
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Thousands of websites may be at risk from a new form of network attack that involves burying harmful packets of data within seemingly legitimate ones.
Researchers at computer security firm Watchfire, in Massachusetts, US, discovered the attack technique, which they dub "HTTP Request Smuggling" (HRS). It exploits discrepancies in the way different combinations of software deal with the language used to transfer web pages, called Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Read the rest here: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7516 |
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