[ad] Hmm Taiwan are really way ahead of everyone when it comes to being a spam hub, sadly that’s nothing to be proud of and generally it’s due to a large amount of poorly configured/unsecured servers. Taiwan needs to start doing some vulnerability assessment! Taiwan and Korea have always had loads of open proxies/exploitable machines […]
Archives for 2006
Academic Papers on Web Application Security
[ad] I found a useful resource containing a whole list of academic papers on web-application security. This list represents an attempt to collect academic papers on the subject of Web application security sorted by the year of publication. Hacking web applications has become a big thing in the last 5 years, just look at the […]
Custom Trojans – Isn’t it Old News?
[ad] Well it is for me, and I guess anyone who consider themselves a career hacker, or at least has a serious interest.. As a few good trojans are open source (Back Orifice?), you can just mess around with them for a while until you reach the point they are no longer detected by any […]
Predicting Malware – Events Trigger Malware/Phishing Spikes
[ad] Apologies for the lack of updates for the past few days, I had to go abroad for an important assessment ;) It’s sad how people can pray on things as terrible as disasters to make a quick buck, but well we have to face the facts that they do, and will. And as it […]
Graph Analysis of Credit Card Loss
[ad] I saw some interesting information recently on a mailing list. We took one sample of one carding/phishing forum that our Global Surveillance Center was monitoring and sampled the set into a graph that lists the top 10 banks and the losses over the last month. As you can see, it’s obvious who the top […]