Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said today as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam. Joe Stewart, ...

Why Your Computer Runs So Slowly

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The first thing I suspect when someone tells me that their PC is running slowly is that they may be dealing with adware or spyware. Typically, a computer infected with this type of malware will display other symptoms as well. Odd behavior such as pop-up ads, your internet home page ...

ProxyStrike – Background SQL Injection and XSS analysis

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The folks over at Darknet do a great job of pointing out interesting tools for use in penetration testing and web app security testing among other things. I won’t be duplicating their feed here, but when I see something that I want to test for myself, I will be posting ...

Wfuzz v1.4 Released for Download – Bruteforcing & Fuzzing Web Applications

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

A new version of Wfuzz is available, many improvements and fixes since first release which was in the middle of 2007. Fuzzing is definitely in, an article was posted recently about how everyone should keep on fuzzing! Will post it up soon. Wfuzz is a tool designed for bruteforcing Web Applications, ...

Browser hack renders routers insecure

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Researcher Dan Kaminsky plans to show how a web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers. Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind ...