HumorControl.org » Steve Gibson http://humorcontrol.org Change your password or the terrorists will win Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:27:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Steve Gibson releases “Spoofarino” tool http://humorcontrol.org/2006/04/01/grc/ http://humorcontrol.org/2006/04/01/grc/#comments Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:01:56 +0000 Your Emcee http://humorcontrol.org/?p=103

The problem of denial of service attacks could be solved overnight if ISPs cleaned up their act, a security gadfly has claimed. Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Corp., has released a free tool that will hold ISPs’ feet to the fire if they have not implemented a security technique known as “egress filtering.” Gibson’s “Spoofarino” utility enables Internet users to test whether their ISPs allow them to send forged or “spoofed” packets of data to Gibson’s Web site. A spoofed packet conceals the true Internet protocol address of the sender’s computer, making it appear to come from another machine…

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This spot-on parody of Steve Gibson’s website explains “Why eMail Attachments will be the Denial Of Service Exploitation Tool of Choice for Internet spammers Everywhere…”

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