Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Researchers at DroneBL have spotted signs of a stealthy router-based botnet worm targeting routers and DSL modems.
The worm, called “psyb0t,” has been circulating since at least January this year, infecting vulnerable embedded Linux devices such as the Netcomm NB5 ADSL modem (above) and launching denial-of-service attacks on some Web sites.
Some ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I just saw that Wireshark has a version available for download to add it directly to your PortableApps Suite. This will allow you to carry a working copy of Wireshark around with you on a USB stick with all of your other portable applications.
First, grab the portable version of Wireshark ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 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 ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
This is it! After many months of effort from the Remote Exploit Dev team, BackTrack 4 Beta is ready and available. I thought I'd post up some "getting started" notes, to help people out with the first surge of questions.
Default password to BackTrack 4 hasn't changed, still root / toor.
KDE ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
On Monday, OpenDNS, the free DNS service, plans to start blocking the Conficker worm's attempts to connect to potential control servers. According to The Register, the new free service will also be able to alert administrators to the presence of the Conficker worm and assist them in locating infected machines.
Conficker ...
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