{"id":2026,"date":"2003-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/03\/attacks-evolving-toward-exploiting-network-services\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:30","slug":"attacks-evolving-toward-exploiting-network-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/03\/attacks-evolving-toward-exploiting-network-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks evolving toward exploiting network services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When surveying the vulnerability landscape this year, one sees a move toward attackers exploiting flaws in services and protocols rather than in applications themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of years ago, the biggest targets were severe vulnerabilities in applications such as Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server.  &#8220;Finding security vulnerabilities in a Web server is fairly easy because the protocol of the web, i.e. HTTP, is a plain text protocol,&#8221; said veteran vulnerability finder David Litchfield of Next Generation Security.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, most of the easy bugs have been found in applications.  For example, the obvious flaws in IIS, for example, have basically been found.<\/p>\n<p>Vendors are also putting more work into finding flaws before shipping out their applications.  <\/p>\n<p>More info: [url=http:\/\/searchsecurity.techtarget.com\/originalContent\/0,289142,sid14_gci939419,00.html]http:\/\/searchsecurity.techtarget.com\/originalContent\/0,289142,sid14_gci939419,00.html[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}