Anatomy of a hack attack

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Monday, 9am Blackjack, a hacker working from an internet cafe in London, is about to launch an attack on a major government agency. His aim is to cause maximum disruption and embarrassment. And, according to security experts, his job is going to be worryingly easy. "Most organisations have dozens of vulnerabilities they ...

Is this website down for everyone or is it just you?

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Have you ever tried to visit a web page only to get the dreaded 404 error or another message, even though the site was working just fine an hour ago? You might be trying to determine if your favorite software and technology blog has crashed due to billions of page ...

The Anatomy of a Vishing Scam

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

A series of well-orchestrated wireless phone-based phishing attacks against several financial institutions last week illustrates how scam artists are growing more adept at fleecing consumers by exploiting security holes in seemingly unrelated Internet technologies. The scams in this case took the form of a type of phishing known as "vishing," wherein ...

Block Downloading of Files in Internet Explorer

Friday, March 14th, 2008

For security reasons one might want to disable or block downloading through Internet Explorer. There could be several other reasons for this including building a secure Internet kiosk, protecting your PC from malicious files, etc. So far as I know, this should work with IE 6 or 7. I tested it ...

2117966(dot)net – Mass iframe injection

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Published: 2008-03-14, Last Updated: 2008-03-14 15:33:49 UTC by Kevin Liston (Version: 1) Situation: Over 10,000 legitimate websites have been compromised and now have an iframe that will direct visitors to a malicious website hosted on 2117966(dot)net. The malicious website attempts to exploit the vulnerability described in MS06-014 and a number of ActiveX vulnerabilities. Successful exploitation ...