Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
This is a tool that has been around quite some time too, it’s still very useful though and it’s a very niche tool specifically for brute forcing Windows Terminal Server.
TSGrinder is the first production Terminal Server brute force tool, and is now in release 2. The main idea here is ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.
But now, researchers at the University of Washington and ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.
Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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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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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
WordPress 2.5.1 came out recently. It includes a critical security fix for a cookie integrity bug that would allow an attacker to impersonate other users, including WordPress admins, by manipulating the contents of an HTTP cookie. Whenever I read about a vulnerability predicated on the user identity being embedded ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
When all of your users have decided to keep their passwords written down on sticky notes, on their hands and under their keyboards how do you protect them from themselves? You could go ahead and rip off each of their finger nails (ouch) until they promise to never write it ...
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