[ad] After McColo was partially disconnected from the Internet by it’s peers global spam dropped noticeably. It seems however that the spam was emanating from a zombie network and the control servers were hosted by McColo, the creators of the botnet (Srizbi) were smart about it though and built a fail-safe system into the the […]
Archives for 2008
Browser Rider – Web Browser Exploitation Framework
[ad] Browser Rider is a hacking framework to build payloads that exploit the browser. The project aims to provide a powerful, simple and flexible interface to any client side exploit. Browser Rider is not a new concept. Similar tools such as BeEF or Backframe exploited the same concept. However most of the other existing tools […]
Julie Amero Spyware Case Finally Comes To An End
[ad] It’s a sad case when someone loses their career over an incident which was outside of their control, not everyone can be expected to keep their computers free of spyware and malware. It just doesn’t happen. Unfortunately for Julie Amero, she got some porn pop-ups at the wrong time in a class full of […]
ike-scan – IPsec VPN Scanner & Testing Tool
ike-scan is a command-line IPSec VPN Scanner & Testing Tool for discovering, fingerprinting and testing IPsec VPN systems. It constructs and sends IKE Phase-1 packets to the specified hosts, and displays any responses that are received. IKE is the Internet Key Exchange protocol which is the key exchange and authentication mechanism used by IPsec. Just […]
Dshocker AKA Aush0k Hacker Pleads Guilty to Computer Felonies
[ad] Another teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated. He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and he’s still classified as a juvenile offender being only 17 – so that works in his favour too. A […]