Monday, May 5th, 2008
Today I decided to give a very brief example on pharming and why it's so easy to pharm surfers with little or no skills. Usually, browser exploit writers give simple examples on how to read the boot files, or launch a calculator. There is so much you can do with ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software, will tomorrow release AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, the latest version of the company’s popular and widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.
AVG Free provides basic protection against viruses and spyware, ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P', automatically generate an exploit for the potentially unknown vulnerability present in P but fixed in P'. In this paper, we propose techniques for automatic patch-based exploit generation, and show that our ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
A security problem with MySpace has the potential to botch up law-enforcement efforts to track bad actors on the social-networking site.
An increasing number of MySpace profiles contain a few lines of code that automatically subscribe people to the profile's video channel, said Chris Boyd, security research manager for FaceTime Communications.
After ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Spyware authors have ramped up their malicious code to invade users' privacy at unprecedented levels. The following list describes some of the most malicious activities of today's spyware, illustrating the need for solid antispyware defenses.
Changing network settings: To prevent signature updates for antivirus and antispyware tools, some spyware alters the ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The Honeynet Project has released a new freebie honeypot client tool that lets security pros and researchers automatically detect and dissect bot infections and other malware attacks on client machines.
Capture-HPC v2.1 is an updated and enhanced version of the Honeynet Project’s high-interaction Capture-HPC client honeypot, which the organization last year ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I won't get into a whole subnetting lesson here but, if you already know subnetting, then you'll know exactly what these charts are and what they mean.I find them very helpful to have around. It saves lots of precious time.
Class A Subnetting
# bits
Subnet Mask
CIDR
# Subnets
# Hosts
Nets * Hosts
2
255.192.0.0
/10
2
4194302
8388604
3
255.224.0.0
/11
6
2097150
12582900
4
255.240.0.0
/12
14
1048574
14680036
5
255.248.0.0
/13
30
524286
15728580
6
255.252.0.0
/14
62
262142
16252804
7
255.254.0.0
/15
126
131070
16514820
8
255.255.0.0
/16
254
65534
16645636
9
255.255.128.0
/17
510
32766
16710660
10
255.255.192.0
/18
1022
16382
16742404
11
255.255.224.0
/19
2046
8190
16756740
12
255.255.240.0
/20
4094
4094
16760836
13
255.255.248.0
/21
8190
2046
16756740
14
255.255.252.0
/22
16382
1022
16742404
15
255.255.254.0
/23
32766
510
16710660
16
255.255.255.0
/24
65534
254
16645636
17
255.255.255.128
/25
131070
126
16514820
18
255.255.255.192
/26
262142
62
16252804
19
255.255.255.224
/27
524286
30
15728580
20
255.255.255.240
/28
1048574
14
14680036
21
255.255.255.248
/29
2097150
6
12582900
22
255.255.255.252
/30
4194302
2
8388604
Class B Subnetting
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Everyone likes to be a good host, but bad guests get carried away. They?ll stay too late or empty bottles too soon. They could even break something along the way. That?s why you take precautions as a host.
Think of your Windows HOSTS file in the same way. By properly setting ...
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