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, ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Injected iframes into legitimate sites are becoming more and more common these days. One of the latest targets is a Chinese government site at www.zhangzhu.gov.cn:
Please note that while the site adminstrators have been notified, the injected iframe is still present in the site at the time of this posting.
The iframe ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
We're excited to tell you that we have improved the scanning for rootkits. Beginning with the first updates in march we have added new anti rootkit plugins for Spybot - Search & Destroy. Apart from that we have also developed a new tool - the RootAlyzer
Rootkits are a technology that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
More than 100 Web servers running Microsoft's Internet Information Services software are still infected with malicious code that was part of a widespread Internet attack, known as Scob, or Download.ject, that began two weeks ago, a security researcher says.
Dan Hubbard director of security and technology research at Websense Inc., a ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Mike Healan
March 23, 2004
If you've ever been infected with a browser hijacker, you know what an infuriating situation it is. For all intents and purposes, your $3,000 computer is converted into a source of revenue for some fly-by-night web site unable to generate legitimate web traffic. Once ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new worm has been discovered exploiting the ISS/PAM ICQ module vulnerability. The worm payload is contained in a single 1025-byte UDP packet with a fixed source port of 4000 and a random destination port. Only the first 470 bytes of the payload are the working code of the worm; ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
"Over the past month, I have seen an increase in infestations by a group called Bundleware.com which with the signature of Ad-aware calling it VX2.BetterInternet objects. Until last night, I believed it was wrong to label Bundelware with the VX2 Transponder signature as their methods were different from what I ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Fresh from penning our Firewall and Virus Alert article, PCStats would like to present the second part of our beginners guide to the less savoury aspects of the internet experience; dealing with the subject of "Spyware." If you've installed a peer-to-peer sharing program such as 'Kazaa Media Desktop' or 'Morpheus', ...
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