Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Emerging DDoS Attack Trends

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In a previous post I emphasized on the long-term trend of how DoS attacks have the potential to cause as much damage as a full-scale DDoS a...

Gender Based Censorship in the News Media

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Great perspective . The author Dr. Agnes Callamard even got the data to prove it. Limiting the freedom of expression for the sake of securin...

Forensic Examination of Terrorists' Hard Drives

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During the last year I presented my point of view on the topic in numerous posts, in order to debunk the common misunderstanding of Cyber...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Overachieving Technology Companies

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Great dataset by Forbes - The 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies : " Our selection process: We require at least $25 million in sales, 1...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Receiving Everyone's Financial Statements

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Bank institutions around the world - stay tuned for wannabe identity thieves requesting their statements while hoping you'll forward th...

Automated Detection for Patterns of Insecurities

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While there're lots of pros and cons to consider when it comes to automated source code scanning, Fortify's pricey automated sou...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Interactivity by Default

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Proud to be operating in a Web 2.0 world, I'm continuing to integrate features to make the reading of this blog more interactive, less t...
Friday, February 02, 2007

Attack of the Biting UAVs

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Remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicles have been shifting usability from defensive(reconnaissance) to offensive( weapons payload ) fo...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

The TalkRization of My Blog

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The service is quite intuitive for a free one, and I must say I never actually got the time to run a podcast on my one, so TalkR seems like...

Old Media VS New Media

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The never ending war of corporate interests between the old and the new media , seems to be re-emerging on a weekly basis. Obviously, newsp...

PR Storm

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Great to see that Mike Rothman and Bill Brenner know how to read between the lines. Here's a related point of view on the Storm Worm -...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Clustering Phishing Attacks

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Clustering a phishing attack to get an in-depth and complete view on the inner workings of a major phishing outbreak or a specific campaig...

Visual Thesaurus on Security

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In case you haven't heard of the Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus , it's an " interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word ...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Testing Anti Virus Software Against Packed Malware

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Very interesting idea as packed malware is something rather common these days, and as we've seen the recent use of commercial packers i...

Threats of Using Outsourced Software

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Self-efficiency in (quality) software programming for security reasons -- yeah, sure : " The possibility that programmers might hide T...

Who's Who on Information and Network Security in Europe

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A very handy summary of Europe's infosec entities and contact details that come as a roadmap for possible partnerships or analyst's...

The Zero Day Vulnerabilities Cash Bubble

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The WMF was reportedly sold for $4000 , a Vista zero day was available for sale at $50,000 , and now private vulnerability brokers claim th...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Attack of the SEO Bots on the .EDU Domain

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A university's Internet presence often results in very high pageranks for their site, therefore, if a malicious spammer would like to ha...

Social Engineering and Malware

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With all the buzz over the "Storm Worm" -- here's a frontal PR attack among vendors -- it is almost unbelievable how hungry f...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Collected in the Wild

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Nothing special, looks like a downloader, tries to connect to *****.cc/getcommand.php?addtodb=1&uid=rtrtrele.CurrentU. to get the payloa...