Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Researchers at Trend Micro are reporting that a new variant of the Koobface worm is spreading on Facebook.Koobface first appeared in 2008, with separate variants striking members of Facebook and MySpace.com. Now the Koobface worm is back again, with an eye toward stealing cookies for other social networking sites.According to ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009 JPEG & PNG Stripper is a Windows only tool for stripping/cleaning/removing unnecessary metadata (junk) from JPG/JPEG/JFIF & PNG files. The image quality IS NOT AFFECTED. Includes command line support as well.Before:Just drag the files that you want to strip onto the application:After:Download:
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30&cmd=download&pid=15
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009 CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009 This tool provides a demonstration of the HTTPS stripping attacks that was presented at Black Hat DC 2009. It will transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links. It also supports modes ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009 It seems that the authors of the Conficker worm for Windows are continually updating their malware. In their current analyses, researchers at SRI International have found that the current Conficker variants B and B++ are decidedly more flexible than their predecessors in downloading further components and new versions.The first version ...
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