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Archives for February 2007
Spam on the Increase – Image Spam Accounting for More
[ad] As always, spam filters get better and smarter, but so do spammers..and frankly spammers have more to gain by beating the spam filters so they always work harder and think in more innovative ways. As they get their spam resembling real emails more and more, the spam filters become less accurate. On top of […]
Caecus – Web Brute Forcing Tool with OCR Support
[ad] Caecus is a unique tool which can bruteforce some OCR form based protections. As far as we know at Darknet, this is the only publicly available OCR brute forcing tool. These scripts generates a digital image as an extra layer of security called OCR. Some versions of this script also use session id’s to […]
Cafepress.com Under Heavy DDoS Attack
[ad] Towards the end of last year Cafepress.com came under heavy DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) which took it down for some time. The problem with DDoS attacks is there’s not much you can do to prevent it, if that guy has enough zombies resulting in enough bandwidth, you are going down. DDoS attacks […]
Odysseus Win32 Proxy & Telemachus HTTP Transaction Analysis
[ad] Introducing a pair of tools that go well together and give you some good control for HTTP transaction analysis and looking at the security of web applications. Odysseus is a tool designed for testing the security of web applications. Odysseus is a proxy server, which acts as a man-in-the-middle during an HTTP session. A […]