TwitterCut – Twitter’s Newest Phishing Scam

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

If you see some tweets in your stream that say: “OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from http://twittercut.com” — don’t be fooled, it’s a scam.  The link takes you to a website that will prompt you for your Twitter login information.  Once it has stolen your credentials, it ...

TrueCrypt 6.2 Released

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in 6.2: The I/O pipeline now uses read-ahead buffering, which improves read performance especially on solid-state drives, typically by 30-50%.  (Windows) Improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements: The boot loader now supports motherboards with BIOSes that reserve large amounts ...

Cain & Abel v4.9.30 Released

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...

Security team shows unfixable Windows 7 hack

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

At the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Dubai on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how software they developed can already take advantage of a design problem with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, allowing them to hack into the system. VBootkit 2.0, created by researchers Vipin Kumar and ...

Comcast passwords leaked onto the Web

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

A list of thousands of user names and passwords for Comcast customers was removed from document sharing Web site Scribd on Monday, two months after it was posted there. Scribd removed the list of more than 8,000 passwords and user names after being contacted by Brad Stone at The New York ...