[ad] There hasn’t been a viral outbreak of this scale for quite some time, Conficker or Downadup as it’s known was only fairly recently discovered (Oct 2008) and has already infected an estimated 9 million machines! It’s spreading fast though and it auto-updates itself via downloads from random domains making it almost impossible to stop […]
Archives for 2009
FireCAT 1.5 Released – Firefox Catalog of Auditing Extensions
[ad] FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTension) is a mindmap collection of the most efficient and useful firefox extensions oriented application security auditing and assessment FireCAT 1.5 will be the last release of this 1.x branch. In fact, we are working on a new improved version 2.0 (management of plugins, instant download from security-database, ability […]
Next-Gen Botnets Taking The Place of Storm and Srizbi
[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 […]
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 […]