Monday, February 2nd, 2009
If you have an RFID-lojacked passport but don't keep it in a faraday cage wallet, this video of Chris Paget's war-driving exploits—plucking information off them from afar—should make you think real hard about it.
Cruising through downtown San Francisco in his car with a $250 homebrew RFID reader setup consisting of ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Drives such as USB sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm, according to researchers.
The "Autoplay" function in Vista and early versions of Windows 7 automatically searches for programs on removable drives.
However, the virus hijacks this process, masquerading as a folder to be opened. When clicked, the ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Here's a list of domains that are currently distributing the Downadup worm:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/downadup_domain_blocklist.txt
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
A team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using software developed and at least partially disclosed by Georg ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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