AVG Technologies Releases AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0

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, ...

Create a mirror of a website with Wget

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features. One of the more advanced features in wget is the mirror ...

Kraken Reverts to HTTP

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Following a friendly heads up from someone yesterday morning, I re-loaded the following Kraken samples into my honeypot: 1d51463150db06bc098fef335bc64971 65b958bf6f5eddca3d9455354af08b6f 6ec7d67d5553cbec2a99c7fbe385a729 7ecef2f126e66e7270afa7b803f715bc 8fd8c67103ec073d9303a7fbc702f89a and began monitoring them. Each sample proceeded to update itself; the updated binary is around 160KB, given a random name and placed in the system32 directory, and no longer has an imagefile icon. The names/MD5 values of ...

Deciphering the PHP-Nuke Captcha

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The Captcha used in the current version 8.1 of PHP Nuke can be deciphered with 100% accuracy. more information can be found here: http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=6 Exploit Code: http://www.rooksecurity.com/exploits/php_nuke_captcha.zip What is so interesting about this captcha is that it is incredibly wide spread. Variants of this captcha are being used by big names like Paypal. ...

A Case Study on Storm Worm

Friday, April 18th, 2008

A bot is a computer program installed on a compromised machine which offers an attacker a remote control mechanism. Botnets, i.e., networks of such bots under a common control infrastructure, pose a severe threat to today’s Internet: Botnets are commonly used for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, sending of spam, or ...