[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 […]
Archives for 2008
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 […]
SCARE – Source Code Analysis Risk Evaluation Tool
[ad] The Source Code Analysis Risk Evaluation project is a study to create a security complexity metric that will analyze source code and provide a realistic and factual representation of the potential of that source code to create a problematic binary. This metric will not say that the binary will be exploited nor does it […]
Teenage Bot Herder Admits to Infecting Military Computers
[ad] Hacking for money again? Well not really in this case, more like script kiddying for money – modifying an ‘off the shelf’ malware/bot package to evade detection and then cashing in on spamware affiliate fees. I guess they could have made much with a 400,000 bot network – by renting it out for DDoS […]