Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge

In the overwhelming sea of information, access to timely, insightful and independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) analyses is crucial for maintaining the necessary situational awareness to stay on the top of emerging security threats. This blog covers trends and fads, tactics and strategies, intersecting with third-party research, speculations and real-time CYBERINT assessments, all packed with sarcastic attitude

Thursday, May 04, 2006

The Current State of Web Application Worms

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Remeber the most recent Yahoo! Mail's XSS vulnerabilities , or the MySpace worm ? I just read through a well written summary on Web App...

Travel Without Moving - Typhoon Class Submarines

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In previous posts " Security quotes : a FSB (successor to the KGB) analyst on Google Earth ", " Suri Pluma - a satellite imag...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Biased Privacy Violation

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This is a very interesting initiative, going beyond the usual MySpace's teen heaven privacy issues, but directly exposing the mature a...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

April's Security Streams

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Hi folks, it's about time to quickly summarize April's Security Streams. As of today, my blog is officially six months old and the f...
Thursday, April 27, 2006

A comparison of US and European Privacy Practices

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A new study on " US and European Corporate Privacy Practices " was released two days ago, and as I constantly monitor the topic k...

DIY Marketing Culture

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Problem - big name advertising agencies, and self forgotten copywriters easily turn into an obstacle for a newly born startup, the way mark...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

In between the lines of personal and sensitive information

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In a previous post, " Give it back! " I mentioned the ongoing re-classification of declassified information and featured some pub...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Wild Wild Underground

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Where's the real underground these days, behind the shadows of the ShadowCrew , the revenge of the now, for-profit script kiddies, or in...
Monday, April 24, 2006

25 ways to distinguish yourself -- and be happy?

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Totally out of the security world, yet very relevant inspirational tips for all readers feeling down, or looking for more sources of self-es...

Why's that radar screen not blinking over there?

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Two days ago, the Russian News & Information Agency - Novosti, reported on how " Russian bombers flew undetected across Arctic ...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

The anti virus industry's panacea - a virus recovery button

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Just when I thought I've seen everything when it comes to malware , I was wrong as a PC vendor is trying to desperately position itself ...

Digital forensics - efficient data acquisition devices

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Digital forensics have always been a hot market segment, whereas the need for a reliable network based forensics model given main Internet...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Spotting valuable investments in the information security market

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Back in January I mentioned the possible acqusition of SiteAdvisor in my " Look who's gonna cash for evaluating the maliciousness ...

Would somebody please buy this Titan 1 ICBM Missile Base?

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I feel that no matter how much you try to bypass the intermediary , it would continue to remain the place for anything auction - 0day vulne...
Friday, April 14, 2006

Fighting Internet's email junk through licensing

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Just came across this story at Slashdot , interesting approach : " China has introduced regulations that make it illegal to run an...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Distributed cracking of a utopian mystery code

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If you have missed the opportunity to buy yourself a portable Enigma encryption machine , or didn't know you could devote some of your C...

On the Insecurities of the Internet

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Among the most popular stereotypes related to Cyberterrorism , is that of terrorists shutting down the Internet , or to put it in another wa...
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Independent Security Consultancy, Threat Intelligence Analysis (OSINT/Cyber Counter Intelligence) and Competitive Intelligence research on demand. Insightful, unbiased, and client-tailored assessments, neatly communicated in the form of interactive reports - because anticipating the emerging threatscape is what shapes the big picture at the end of the day. Approach me at dancho.danchev@hush.com
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