Mass Injection Attack Affects 40,000 Websites

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Researchers at Websense have discovered a mass injection attack that is redirecting Web browsers to a malware-bearing site. According to a weekend report by researchers at Websense, thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site. "The active ...

VirtualBox 2.2.4 Released

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General ...

Steganography with TCP retransmissions

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Polish researchers have described a way of hiding information in retransmissions of IP-based data traffic. Transmission errors are simulated in a TCP connection to provoke retransmissions and, before packets are retransmitted, their content is replaced with data intended to be concealed. With the steganographic protocol known to both sender and receiver, ...

L0phtCrack 6 Released

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

L0phtCrack 6 is packed with powerful features such as scheduling, hash extraction from 64 bit Windows versions, multiprocessor algorithms, and networks monitoring and decoding. Yet it is still the easiest to use password auditing and recovery software available. Password Scoring L0phtCrack 6 provides a scoring metric to quickly assess password quality. Passwords ...

TwitterCut – Twitter’s Newest Phishing Scam

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

If you see some tweets in your stream that say: “OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from http://twittercut.com” — don’t be fooled, it’s a scam.  The link takes you to a website that will prompt you for your Twitter login information.  Once it has stolen your credentials, it ...