Tmin fuzzing test case optimizer released

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Tmin is a quick and simple tool to minimize the size and syntax of complex test cases in automated security testing. The tool is somewhat related to delta, which is a more featured general purpose optimizer but is meant specifically for dealing with unknown or complex data formats (without the need ...

Who Killed My Hard Drive?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

You've heard the threat before: A virus or Trojan could infect your PCs and wreck their hard drives. But how often does it really happen -- and how bad is the damage? A new university study suggests that hard-drive-killing attacks launched by hackers are actually pretty rare -- but when they ...

New Spam Attack Exploits Edunet Servers

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Researchers have discovered a new, complex spam attack that uses a sophisticated ruse to fool users into downloading malware. The exploit, which researchers at BitDefender call "a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity," features spam messages that claim to contain links to videos. When users try to click and see the video, ...

House of Hackers

Monday, May 5th, 2008

House of Hackers is an exclusive, hacker community network. The House of Hackers community is established to support the hacker culture, mindset, way of life, ideologies, political views, vision, etc. Members of the community are able to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate ...

Cross-Site-Scripting with Morse code

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Nowadays, who understands Di-Di-Di-Da-Da-Da-Di-Di-Dit (S.O.S., Save Our Souls)? Few people do, but your web browser just might. In his blog, security expert Nathan McFeters has reported the discovery of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on an Italian website that allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript encoded in Morse code in ...