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Analysis of the latest malware, viruses, worms, industrial exploits and denial of service.

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Bypassing WPS Router Security
January 4, 2012, No Comments

Security researcher Stefan Viehbock recently released information about a method that can be used to bypass the security ...

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APT – More Persistent than advanced
October 30, 2011, No Comments

RSA, one of this years highest profile victims of an ‘Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)’ held a summit in Was ...

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Infographic: Botnets vs Armies
September 6, 2011, No Comments

I came across this statistic earlier on InfoSecurity: More than 100 million computers are currently infected with botnet ...

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The Geography of Social Media Threats
August 27, 2011, No Comments

Bernadette Irinco over at Trend Labs has pulled together a fantastic Infographic giving a rundown of potential threats t ...

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Malware infected spam attacks spike
August 17, 2011, No Comments

Researchers at security lab M86 yesterday reported a massive spike in the volume of malware attachments being spotted by ...

DLL Hijacking Exploit
October 30, 2010, No Comments

The DLL hijack vulnerability is triggered when a vulnerable file type is opened from within a directory controlled by th ...

The Social Engineer Toolkit
October 27, 2010, No Comments

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is specifically designed to perform advanced attacks against the human element. SET wa ...

Proof of Concept iPhone rootkit demonstrated
October 26, 2010, No Comments

The success of a group of hackers in compromising the security of Apple’s iPhone may set the stage for more malwar ...

FireSheep exposes risk of sending data to non SSL websites
October 25, 2010, No Comments

It’s no secret that Web sessions that use the bare HTTP protocol to transmit and receive data are susceptible to a ...

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Washington DC online voting system compromised
October 11, 2010, 1 Comment

Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, ...

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Fake Tech Support Scam
October 10, 2010, 3 Comments

They take mere hours to set up and they’re near impossible to shut down: a pernicious new type of scam is targeting Br ...

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Snow Leopard : Xprotect Revealed
September 8, 2009, No Comments

Intego, a MacOSX only anti-virus vendor last week released some early details of Xprotect - the anti-malware system rele ...

Further Koobface Analysis
August 15, 2009, 1 Comment

How much information is available on those responsible for the koobface attack? One of the main attack servers - kukuruk ...

Koobface migrates to Twitter
August 10, 2009, No Comments

Koobface migrated to Twitter and launched a posting frenzy at the end of last week. In a bit to avoid detection it is ge ...

Twitter Silenced : Denial Of Service Explained
August 7, 2009, No Comments

Twitter suffered a well publicised denial of service last night. The attack, which succeeded in bringing down the servic ...

Additional Nineball Malware Domains Uncovered
June 20, 2009, No Comments

The Google Hacking technique proved effective at searching for domains that include the in.cgi?x pattern highlighted as ...

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Nineball Injection Attack based in Russia
June 19, 2009, 1 Comment

Websense Threatseeker is reporting a new obfuscated Javascript injection attack, this time affecting up to 40,000 websit ...

Analysis of Malware Attacks
June 16, 2009, No Comments

I’ve been running a Nepenthes low interaction honey pot over the last few months and have collected almost 900 bin ...

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Deobfuscating Gumblar
June 8, 2009, No Comments

What is it? Gumblar is the latest in a series of worm infestations that started with the Conficker outbreak in late 2008 ...

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Conficker.A DNS Rendezvous Analysis
June 7, 2009, No Comments

In an attempt to gain a better understanding for who was registering Conficker.A/B DNS rendezvous points (either for int ...