[ad] Back in November there was a considerable drop in Spam when Spam friendly ISP McColo was cut off from the Internet by it’s upstream peer. Srizbi worm was pretty smart though and was picking up again by the end of November. Later in the year the botnets were somewhat neutralised leading to a huge […]
Archives for January 2009
The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG) – Create Related Wordlists for Password Cracking
[ad] You may remember some time back we did a fairly exhaustive post on Password Cracking Wordlists and Tools for Brute Forcing. Wyd the Password Profiling Tool also does something similar to AWLG but it’s a PERL script rather than being based online. I’d prefer if AWLG let us download an offline version too personally. […]
Fake CNN Site From Phishing E-mail Serves Trojan
[ad] The latest Phishing E-mails going round are leveraging on people’s need to digest the latest information, in this case about the Israel-Hamas conflict. They set up a fake CNN site which prompts you to upgrade your flash player to view the video, of course it’s not Flash but a Trojan targeting your sensitive financial […]
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Testing Guide v3 Released
[ad] This project’s goal is to create a “best practices” web application penetration testing framework which users can implement in their own organizations and a “low level” web application penetration testing guide that describes how to find certain issues. Version 3 of the Testing Guide was released in last month in December 2008, the project […]
TJX (T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s) Hacker Jailed For 30 Years
[ad] You should be familiar with the TJX case by now (TJX Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History) and we’ve been following it here for a couple of years. We reported back in August last year that the TJX Credit Card Hackers were Busted and now one of the 11 guys involved has […]