Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have welcomed news that a teenager has confessed to controlling thousands of computers in an illegal botnet.19-year-old Jason Michael Milmont, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has admitted to being the programmer of the Nugache malware which infected Windows computers, ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Italian researchers have published a paper on the Detection of Encrypted Tunnels across Network Boundaries. I came across it in a google search because I’ve been thinking of writing a program which does something similar. It doesn’t seem like anyone else has picked up on this research yet so I ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Another day, another gaping hole affecting fully patched versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.According to a warning from US-CERT, proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a new zero-day bug that can be used for a variety of malicious attacks against Windows users running IE 6, IE 7, and IE ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
"By default, Radmin uses a known port, TCP port 4899 for remote access. In addition, if you are using password authentication only, a remote user only has to find an open TCP port 4899 and guess one word: your password.Suggestions:It is very easy to implement any or all of the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
It's no shock to anybody that on this blog I'm mainly just re-blogging good and informative articles until I graduate and actually have the time to sit and write my own content. I figured this was a great way to keep my site "active" in the eyes of the ...
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