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Next-Gen Botnets Taking The Place of Storm and Srizbi

oh dear.. how sad.. never mind

one other chapter in the never ending story.

Keep you scanners/firewalls/malware detection tools etc. up to date. One up for the mouse in this eternal cat & mouse thing. The cat will catch up eventually.

» Posted By goodpeople On January 19, 2009 @ 9:31 am

Happy New Year For 2009 From Darknet

Best wishes to all

» Posted By goodpeople On January 5, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

Morris Worm To Turn 20 – How Far Things Have Come

I allways tell my students about the Morris Worm. It’s one of those stories that brings back warm feelings about “the good old days”.

» Posted By goodpeople On November 3, 2008 @ 7:54 am

Swiss Researchers Sniff Password from Wired Keyboard

Fun to read. More fun to eplore, but hardly a threat for the majority of people.

» Posted By goodpeople On October 27, 2008 @ 9:17 am

DarkMarket Carding (Credit Card Fraud) Site Part of FBI Sting

Strike one for the good guys…

» Posted By goodpeople On October 27, 2008 @ 8:37 am

E-mail Scammers Target Microsoft Users

I agree with Gul. Education is the only solution. Plus that we have to whatever we can at a technical level to protect our sheep.

But I fear that there will always be a market for this kind of threat.

» Posted By goodpeople On October 27, 2008 @ 8:20 am

XSS-Proxy – Cross Site Scripting Attack Tool

XSS is a relatively new an unknown method to the public. I fear that we’ll see alot of XSS attacks in the future. Security just recently became an issue for developers of web applications.

Commonly heard misconception: I’m using mysql, so i’m not vulnerable to XSS..

» Posted By goodpeople On October 27, 2008 @ 9:25 am

Symantec to Buy MessageLabs (Email Spam and Web Traffic Filter)

So Symantec is now at #1 on M$’s wishlist..

» Posted By goodpeople On October 20, 2008 @ 7:25 am

THC-ePassports – THC Clones Biometric ePassport – Elvis Presley Passport

Being from the Netherlands, I feel the urge to rectify this..

The system involed in this is still in it’s test phase. Only a handfull of people are using it and that is monitored pretty closely.

» Posted By Goodpeople On October 9, 2008 @ 9:18 am

MI6 Sells Digital Camera on Ebay Containing Terrorist Images

I don’t believe a word of it.

fun to read tho…

» Posted By Goodpeople On October 9, 2008 @ 8:24 am

Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’ Gives Out ATM Hacking Tips

Am I glad that I live in a small town..

» Posted By Goodpeople On October 2, 2008 @ 9:24 am

Brits Give Up Passwords For a £5 Gift Voucher

This is one of those moments where I wonder if people are really worh protecting..

Of course I would also have told the researcher that my passwords are very simple.. just to get the check.

» Posted By Goodpeople On September 28, 2008 @ 5:54 am

fwknop – Port Knocking Tool with Single Packet Authorization

hmmm interresting.. definately something to look at once I have a stable connection at home…

» Posted By Goodpeople On October 9, 2008 @ 9:38 am

International Space Station Infected by Virus!

ISS runs on windows huh? One more reason not to go up there…

» Posted By Goodpeople On September 22, 2008 @ 7:07 am

Surf Jack – Cookie Session Stealing Tool

It’s fairly easy to program you way around threats like this. Just include the destination MAC address in the cookie when you send it out (encrypted of course) and check it against the originating MAC address while reading the cookie back in..

» Posted By Goodpeople On September 22, 2008 @ 7:17 am

psad – Intrusion Detection and Log Analysis with iptables

a lightweight ids.. good news for home users..

» Posted By Goodpeople On September 22, 2008 @ 6:59 am

Modern Exploits – Do You Still Need To Learn Assembly Language (ASM)

I do agree with William and others.. to some extent, that is…

Yes it is important to know how a computer does it’s trick. And yes, it is important to develop programming skills, but I don’t think you need ASM per se. (unless of course you want to reach the top of the IT security field).

C is fine. Heck any language is fine (although I doubt that Lisp will be a good choice). The important part is that tomorrow’s security experts learn how to think along logical lines. And that is where programming skills come in handy.

» Posted By Goodpeople On September 23, 2008 @ 6:20 pm

CSRF Vulnerability in Twitter Allows Forced Following

Three Golden rules regarding Social Networks.

1. Don’t use them
2. Don’t subscribe to them
3. Never log on to them

(free after Robert Morris)

» Posted By Goodpeople On September 22, 2008 @ 7:57 am

Wireshark v1.0.0 Released – Cross Platform Graphical Packet Sniffer

Depends on what I’m trying to find out. WS is kind of a big gun if I only want to analyze MSN traffic…

» Posted By goodpeople On April 3, 2008 @ 7:33 am

iFrame Piggybacking on Google Searches to Install Malware

It would be a good day if this marked the end of the Google/Yahoo etc. searchbars….

» Posted By goodpeople On April 1, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

UK Proposing to Disconnect Those Involved in Piracy from the Internet

I declare those Brits officially nuts. This cannot be implemented without hurting legitimate traffic.

» Posted By goodpeople On February 21, 2008 @ 12:18 pm

US Customs Owns Your Data?

Flying to the US cost me a set of darts once. And that was in ‘95. I guess a pointy thing weighing 22 grams with which you throw at a board made of horsehair has been considered a lethal weapon for a long time…

» Posted By goodpeople On February 14, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

btw, I also suggested this trick to that German student I have.

» Posted By goodpeople On February 13, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

@Sir Henry,

I totally agree with the outage you feel about this. That is why I (oops) simply make anything they might find interresting “disapear” from the harddisk.
No use fighting a battle you can’t possibly win.

» Posted By goodpeople On February 13, 2008 @ 7:15 pm

All you have to do is remove your data partions from the partitiontable of your harddisk.

I cannot, of course, disclose any identities, but I know of someone (ahum) that, when he last travelled to the States, “removed” a partition from his harddrive by changing it’s partitiontype to Amoeba.

They can look all they want, the data simply isn’t there.

» Posted By goodpeople On February 13, 2008 @ 10:23 am

January Commenter of the Month Competition Winner!

uhhm, guys.. I just received a Creative ZEN mediaplayer in the mail. Compliments of GFI software.

» Posted By goodpeople On February 13, 2008 @ 11:59 am

Then just imagine.. I’ll be 44 next month!

btw, how’s the new job?

» Posted By goodpeople On February 11, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

@Sir Henry,

The wrist is getting better (although after seeing Hair, the musical last saturday I discovered that applauding is still somewhat painful.)

But now I also have tendon lighting (translated by Babelfish, I don’t know if this is the right word) in my right foot. I guess I’ll start to fall apart soon…

» Posted By goodpeople On February 11, 2008 @ 7:39 pm

@Darknet & Sir Henry,

Frankly, I didn’t expect anything at all. Usually these things are for US citizens only…

» Posted By goodpeople On February 11, 2008 @ 7:31 pm

Good Golly, the prizes have arrived!

The package contained a t-shirt, a mug, a pen, a pencil and two keycords. Unfortunately no ipod or psp but I guess that’s too much to ship overseas.

Thanks anyway and I will send a picture of me and my winnings shortly.

» Posted By goodpeople On February 11, 2008 @ 5:24 pm