This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming).. But then he exposed his IP address on IRC, posted his face […]
Archives for 2009
Michael Jackon Spam/Malware – RIP The King Of Pop
[ad] For people of my age and generation and I’d guess for most readers of Darknet, Michael Jackson would have had a great influence on our lives. The biggest news last week was most certainly his death, as usual the bad guys were extremely quick to capitalize on this and were sending out spam within […]
BackTrack 4 Pre Release Available For Download
[ad] You may remember back in February the BETA of BackTrack 4 was released for download, the team have made many changes and have now released BackTrack 4 Pre Release. For those that don’t know BackTrack is the top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is […]
Twitter Hack Spreads P*rn Trojan
[ad] I had a spam tweet appear in my stream a while back and like Guy Kawasaki I also had absolutely no idea where it came from. Perhaps some kinda XSS flaw in Twitter when I visited a site that spawned the message (in a hidden iframe perhaps). It wouldn’t be the first time Twitter […]
Slowloris – HTTP DoS Tool in PERL
[ad] This tool has been hitting the news, including some mentions in the SANS ISC Diary. It’s not actually a new attack (it’s been around since 2005) but this is the first time a packaged tool has been released for the attack. Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests. It continues to send […]