Hacking Backdoor in G-Archiver Found!

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your GMail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with ...

Windows Hacked in Seconds via Firewire

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

A New Zealand security researcher has published a software tool allowing attackers to quickly gain access to Windows systems via a Firewire port. The tool, which can only be used by attackers with physical access to a system, comes shortly after the publication of research on gaining access to encrypted hard ...

Useful Registry Entries for Windows NT/2000 and Windows 9x/ME

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The following is a list of registry entries culled from many trawlings on web pages and discussion groups. They will be most useful for NT network administrators. The entries follow the format found when exporting registry files using RegEDIT. This allows for easy cut & paste into a custom .REG file ...

New breed of hack attack

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Hackers appear to have stepped up their efforts to trick corporate executives into downloading malicious software programs that can steal company data over the past year. That's according to security vendor MessageLabs, which caught an average of 10 e-mails per day in May targeted at people in senior management positions, up ...

Password-Stealing Trojan Spreads

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

A fresh round of spam with a password-stealing Trojan horse detected this week uses a German-language pitch, saying the malicious attachment is an official Microsoft Windows update. The attached malware, called "Trojan-PSW.Win32.Sinowal.u" by antivirus software developer Kaspersky Lab, is a next-generation Trojan that's on the rise, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior ...