Thursday, May 10, 2007

Defeating Virtual Keyboards

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To deal with the threat of keyloggers -- or to win time during te process of implementing two factor authentication and one-time-passwords-i...

International Cryptography Regulations Map

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Regulations on importing, exporting and using encryption greatly vary across the world. Bert-Jaap Koops came up with some informative maps h...

Disintermediating the Major Defense Contractors

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Innovative and cost-effective altogether? Think SpaceShipOne , a commercial space ship that didn't come from a major defense contractor,...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

DDoS on Demand VS DDoS Extortion

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There were recent speculations on the decline of DDoS attacks , in respect to the lack of companies actually paying to extortion attacks and...
Friday, May 04, 2007

A Chronology of a Bomb Plot

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A very detailed overview of a bomb plot , especially the lines related to anything digital such as : - " An e-mail sent from Mr. Khawa...

Winamp PoC Backdoor and a Zero Day

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Listen to your infection? Not necessarily as this backdoor binds cmd.exe on port 24501, but needs to be socially engineered in the form of ...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Anti-Censorship Lifestyle

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Following a previous post on security lifestyle(s) , and in between the ongoing efforts to censor a 16 digit number I feel it's about t...

The Brandjacking Index

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Picture a situation where a customer gets tricked into authenticating at the wrong site of company XXX. Would they do business with company ...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Cryptome Under Fire

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John Young at Cryptome.org is reporting that its hosting provider decided to terminate their relationship on the basis of violating their ...

Video Demonstration of Vbootkit

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Orignally introduced at this year's Blackhat con in Amsterdam, the Vbootkit is a kit showcasing the execution of unsigned code on Window...

Malicious Keywords Advertising

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Blackhat SEO's been actively abused by spammers, phishers and malware authors, each of them contributing to the efficiency of the underg...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Conventional Weaponry VS Cyber Terrorism

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Insightful comment on how assymetric warfare and abusing the most versatile communication medium is something conventional weaponry cannot ...

Malware Infected Removable Media

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In a previous post I discussed various thought to be outdated physical security threats such as leaving behind CDs and DVDs malware ready a...

Outsourcing The Spying on Your Wife

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Targeted attacks and zero day malware have always been rubbing shoulders, and it's not just a fad despite that everyone's rememberin...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Shots from the Malicious Wild West - Sample Seven

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The Webmoner is a malware family that's been targeting the WebMoney service for the last couple of years , a service which is mostly u...
Monday, April 23, 2007

OSINT Through Botnets

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Open source intelligence gathering techniques from a government sponsored cyber espionage perspective have been an active doctrine for year...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Google in the Future

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Great fake as a matter of fact. Don't blame the crawler while crawling the public Web, but the retention of clickstreams for indefinite ...

Shots from the Malicious Wild West - Sample Six

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Continuing the "Malicious Wild West" series, the Blacksun RAT integration on the web is so modules-friendly it makes you wonder wh...

Shots from the Malicious Wild West - Sample Five

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Open source malware with a MSQL based web command and control? It's not just Sdbot and Agobot being the most popular malware groups tha...

A Compilation of Web Backdoors

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The other day I came across to a nice compilation of web backdoors only, and decided to verify how well are various AVs performing when det...