Opera boosts its anti-phishing defenses

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Opera 9.5 Beta 2 has stepped up its security game. The browser has added fraud protection and support for EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates to help prevent identity theft.Opera’s move to join the EV SSL crowd leaves Safari as the only browser without anti-phishing protection. As you ...

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 8fd8c67103ec073d9303a7fbc702f89aand 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=6Exploit Code: http://www.rooksecurity.com/exploits/php_nuke_captcha.zipWhat 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. ...