Facebook Password Spam Conceals Malware Attack

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Researchers at several security firms have tied the Bredolab Trojan to a spam campaign targeting Facebook users.The malware is being blasted out by spammers in e-mails claiming to come from “The Facebook Team." Inside the e-mails is a message that the recipient's Facebook password has been changed. In order to ...

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Reverse Hash Calculator

Monday, October 26th, 2009

This page doesn't use rainbow tables (yet), but a similar, simpler approach. It uses a database of a couple million pre-compiled hash values. The strings used come from various password databases, and should have a pretty good chance of "hitting" your value. There is an intentional delay in the ...

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Cain & Abel v4.9.35 released

Monday, October 26th, 2009

New in 4.9.35: - Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal Server in APR-RDP sniffer filter. - Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems. - Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password ...

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Cain & Abel v4.9.34 released

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

New in 4.9.34: Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal Server in APR-RDP sniffer filter. Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems. Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password Decoder. Added Windows Live ...

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Microsoft Confirms Hotmail Phishing Attack

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Several thousand Hotmail usernames and passwords were exposed on over the weekend via a phishing attack, Microsoft confirmed late on Monday. Microsoft said it would block access to the accounts that were exposed and work with customers to reclaim access to them. "Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live ...

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