[ad] It really does seem like the Malware/Spyware folks are really into making money nowdays, what with $15 spyware kits and Viruses that place your machine under lockdown until you pay the ransom.. What happened to people just doing stuff for learning, for enhancement of knowledge, deep understanding..not a quick few hundred dollars. I have […]
Archives for May 2006
The MIT IP Packet Spoofing Project – Can We Spoof IP Packets?
[ad] Now this is a VERY interesting project, as I’ve always said the majority of DoS attacks and DDoS attacks (90%+) could be stopped if all the ISP’s null routed packets which DO NOT originate from IP blocks they own, e.g. spoofed packets. Basically the project has been established to see if you can spoof […]
AV Firms Say Windows Vista Security Claims are Bullsh*t
[ad] It seems the faith in Microsoft from the security industry is at an all time low, not surprising really with the amount of flaws that have been coming out in both the OS and the crapware forced upon its users like Internet Explorer Exploder. Anti-virus firms at Infosec say they expect Vista and IE7 […]
Homeland Security Uncovers Critical Flaw in X11
An open-source security audit program funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has flagged a critical vulnerability in the X Window System (X11) which is used in Unix and Linux systems. A missing parentheses in a bit of code is to blame. The error can grant a user root access, and was discovered using […]
Medusa Password Cracker Version 1.1 Now Available For Download
Medusa is a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services created by the geeks at Foofus.net. It currently has modules for the following services: CVS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, MS-SQL, MySQL, NCP (NetWare), PcAnywhere, POP3, PostgreSQL, rexec, rlogin, rsh, SMB, SMTP (VRFY), SNMP, SSHv2, SVN, Telnet, VmAuthd, VNC, and a generic wrapper module. While […]