[ad] It turns out Gary McKinnon got sloppy, that’s why he got busted. He forgot the computers he was comprimising were in a completely different time zone, and as he was using remote control software, the person in the office saw their mouse moving around. We have reported about this guy before, when he was […]
Archives for April 2006
Trojan Writers Coding for Money – Freezes PC for Ransom
[ad] A new term has been coined, yes indeed.. Ransomeware That’s what they are calling this new threat, infects your PC then freezes it until you send some people some money. A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings […]
Paros Proxy 3.2.11 Released – MITM HTTP and HTTPS Proxy
Paros 3.2.11 has been released. This version is a maintenance release with a useful feature requested by various users. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version. One of my favourite proxy options, along side the Burp Proxy (evolved into Burp Suite). Paros labels itself as MITM Proxy + Spider + Scanner plus anything […]
Oracle Releases a Default Password Scanner
Oracle is getting serious with security? Again..? Oracle Corp. has published a collection of software patches that address security vulnerabilities in a range of the company’s products, including its database and application server software. As part of this update, it also released a tool designed to ferret out commonly used default passwords that theoretically could […]
MS and the new IE vulnerability – Object Tag
[ad] Can you see the irony? Just after 2 weeks that M$ released the Internet Explorer security makeover, Michal Zalewski came up with a highly critical exploit, as called by Secunia… based on a mishandling of the OBJECT tag…. Security alerts aggregator Secunia flagged the issue as “highly critical” and stressed that it can be […]