Another teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated.
He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and he’s still classified as a juvenile offender being only 17 - so that works in his favour too.

A juvenile hacker with [...]

It seems like botnets are getting more sophisticated - we thought the Storm Worm was pretty hot, but some of these new contenders are showing the guys on the dark side has some advanced understanding of technology and the architecture many companies use…this enables them to get deeper inside and remain undetected

Researchers have unearthed two [...]

Hacking for money again? Well not really in this case, more like script kiddying for money - modifying an ‘off the shelf’ malware/bot package to evade detection and then cashing in on spamware affiliate fees.
I guess they could have made much with a 400,000 bot network - by renting it out for DDoS attacks to [...]

So what’s coming next, after Storm you might ask. You might remember Storm Worm Descending on Blogspot recently and other news about Botnets spiraling out of control accounting for almost 25% of online computers.
Well apparently next will be p2p or peer to peer Botnets which could literally blow Storm away.

You know about the Storm Trojan, [...]

An interesting happening this week, some ISP’s have been jacking the DNS entries for certain IRC networks to crack down on zombie/bot infections.
Is it ethical? Should they be doing this to their users?
I first got wind of this from a post on Full Disclosure mailing list from an IRC network administrator.
You can read that e-mail [...]

Well this is my last week of exams, and today I got a free day, tomorrow it will be maths… Anyway while waiting for somebody I got bored and decided to make a small (tiny) video about piping data under windows, you know | …
In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is the original [...]

Another video in 2-3 days… I think i this becoming like a mania for me… Anyway in this video i played around with netstat so that for those who do not play with it could see the possibilities it offers to us… no more tutorials like:

netstat -a
to view all you connections
the end

… because I have [...]

ISIC is a suite of utilities to exercise the stability of an IP Stack and its component stacks (TCP, UDP, ICMP et. al.) It generates piles of pseudo random packets of the target protocol. The packets be given tendencies to conform to. Ie 50% of the packets generated can have IP Options. 25% of the [...]

Well at least it shows the Internet is not very susceptible to such attacks due to its distributed nature, even if the root nameservers are down, the DNS system still functions.
This was a pretty heavy attack though and the most significant in the past 5 years or so, someone testing their ego I guess.
I CAN [...]

It’s a scary thought to find out perhaps a quarter of Internet connected machines could be zombies…The sad part is, I think it could well be true, as most of the non tech savvy Internet users I know still use Internet Exploder and their machines are riddled with crapware, trojans, viruses and spyware.
Imagine how many [...]