New Zlob Trojan Alters Your Router Settings

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Another new development in the malware arena, this new version of Zlob will actually log onto your router and change the DNS settings to hijack your traffic. Pretty interesting approach and it will work because 99% of people won’t change the default password on their routers. Let’s face it, have you ...

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Cisco IOS Rootkit Demonstrated

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Last Thursday at the EUSecwest conference, security researcher Sebastian Muniz of Core Security Technologies demonstrated a proof-of-concept rootkit for Cisco's IOS router operating system.A root kit consists of one or several related applications designed to give the program user root or administrator privileges on a given computer, whether or not ...

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Firefox developers tinker with new security protections

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Developers of the Firefox browser are designing new technologies aimed at protecting users from some of the nastiest and most prevalent forms of website attacks. One protection is designed to minimize end users' risk to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and cross-site request forgeries (CSRFs), both of which subvert basic internet security ...

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Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco’s routers

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic. Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, developed the software, which he will unveil on May 22 at the ...

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Free public WiFi

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I recently found myself in an airport terminal with a laptop and time to kill. Not knowing what the WiFi options were, I let Windows XP search for available wireless networks. As you can see below, one of the networks was called "Free Public WiFi". If this happens to you, ...

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