Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Documentary on ECHELON - The Spy System

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Remember ECHELON ? The über-secretive worldwide intelligence sharing network that various activists once tried to poison by generating fake ...

USB Surveillance Sticks

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Despite the ongoing awareness built among enterprises and end users on the risks posed by removable media, there are vendors offering variou...

Death is Just an Upgrade

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Started as a project to digitally mimic 100% a human's behaviour, the Virtual Soldier research program is getting more funding to accom...

Botnet Communication Platforms

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Botnets, or the automated exploitation and management of malware infected PCs is perhaps the most popular and efficient cyber threat the Int...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Real Time Censored URL Check in China

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While the original initiative for a real-time URL censorship check in China was originally realized as a project by Jonathan Zittrain and B...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

AdSense Click Fraud Rates

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Google's single most profitable revenue generation source AdSense has always been under fire for click fraud and most importanly the com...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Social Engineering the Old Media

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While the Rules of the Thirds are partly in place, the floating fragnance and his depressed look provide some clues. The story is very inte...

Storm Worm Switching Propagation Vectors

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The storm started with mass mailings , then the malware switched to IM propagation , and now the infected PCs are further spreading through ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Credit Card Data Cloning Tactic

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First of all, she's too cute for someone to even have the slightest suspicion, and to be honest the posers paying their coffee with a cr...

XSS Vulnerabilities in E-banking Sites

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The other day I came across to this summary with direct examples of various XSS vulnerabilities at E-banking sites , and I wonder why the re...

Fake Terror SMS Sent to 10,000 People

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This is serious, and while it was a hoax , it could have had much more devastating results acting as a propagation vector for malware, a phi...
Friday, February 23, 2007

A Review of SiteAdvisor Pro

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During 2006, the company popped out like a mushroom in front of my desktop as you can read in a previous post , and on its acquisition two ...

Characteristics of Islamist Websites

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Excellent and recent analysis of the most common characteristics of islamist websites published by the Middle East Media Research Institute...

The RootLauncher Kit

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After providing more insights on the WebAttacker Toolkit and the Nuclear Grabber , in this post I'll discuss the RootLauncher, a releas...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Image Blocking in Email Clients and Web Services

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Handy graphs and best practices on the state of default remote image loading in desktop and online email clients -- a problematic issue fro...

Korean Zombies Behind the Root Servers Attack

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More details on the recent DDoS attacks on the DNS root servers emerge, seems like the attacks originated from Sourth Korean infected PC s, ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Phishing Ecosystem

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Phishing is the efficient case of online social engineering . With the ease of sending phishing emails thanks to malware infected PCs -- sp...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Cuba's Internet Dictatorship

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And you thought people in China suffer from the lack of free speech expression . Here's the cheap version of the great firewall of China...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Profiling Sergey Brin

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Great weekend reading : " Stepping through the sliding glass door into their office is like walking into a playroom for tech-savvy adu...

Beyond Traditional Advertising Packages

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Differentiate your value proposition or cease to exist. And hey, that's on Madison Avenue : " As a startup carrier that hadn't...