[ad] Ferret works on the concept of “data seepage”: bits of benign data that people willingly broadcast to the world (as opposed to “leakage”, which is data people want to hide from the world). Examples of data seepage are what happens when you power-on your computer. It will broadcast to the world the list of […]
Archives for March 2008
February Commenter of the Month Competition Winner!
[ad] ompetition time again! As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and July. We have just finished the ninth month of the competition in February and are now in the tenth, starting a few days ago on March 1st […]
Australia to Follow the UK in Terminating Content Pirates
[ad] It seems like most countries are getting more serious about the illegal downloading and the protection of intellectual property, after the UK recently proposed disconnecting ‘pirates’ from the Internet – Australia is now considering following suit. I guess this is just the start, laws will become more heavy handed and draconian as most of […]
Burp Suite v1.1 Available for Download
[ad] One of our favourite all time tools for attacking web applications has been updated! Burp Suite has now reached version 1.1! This is a major release – not a minor upgrade. Burp Suite is an integrated platform for attacking web applications. It contains all of the Burp tools with numerous interfaces between them designed […]
New Sophisticated Botnets Discovered
[ad] 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 […]