A team of US security researchers has engineered a way of hiding malware in sentences that read like English language spam.
The work is a breakthrough because current network security techniques work on the assumption that the code used in code-injection attacks, where it is delivered and run on victims’ computers, has a different structure to [...]

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According the latest Microsoft’s researches guessing FTP passwords is still a valuable way to harvest account information. People still forget or ignore to change their default password or change it that way attackers can easily guess.
Microsoft releases password attack data
Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords continue to [...]

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Nice article about botnets, click fraud and spamming.
You can find the original article (written by Yury Namestnikov) on www.viruslist.com.

The Economics of Botnets
In the past ten years, botnets have evolved from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from a single C&C (command and control center) into sophisticated distributed systems comprising millions of computers with decentralized [...]

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I just stumbled across this botnet price list which was published by Kaspersky some months ago. Nice to know. Have a look …

A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into “zombies” controlled by botnet masters, says an IT [...]

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In raids throughout Germany and Austria, police closed down a web gang which stole private credit-card data and used viruses to create a network of 100,000 robot computers, Germany’s Federal Crime Office said Wednesday.
In Germany, three persons were detained during the Tuesday raids on 46 homes. One was held in Austria. Many computers were seized.
The [...]

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Tool name :
SecureDelete version 0.1

Description :
SecureDelete is a tool that allows you to delete files permanently and unrecoverable from your Windows system. There is no remaining copy in the trash can and the blocks the file was using are overwritten with random data. Once a file was was deleted with SecureDelete the data is gone.

Tested [...]

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Tool name :
TrueCrypt

Description :

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password or correct encryption [...]

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A Dutch internet service provider has identified a worm that installs a backdoor on jailbroken iPhones and makes them part of a botnet.
The worm, according to XS4ALL, targets jailbroken iPhones whose owners have carelessly failed to change the default password. In addition to connecting to a Lithuanian master command channel, it also changes the root [...]

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A British court has sentenced four men to prison after they admitted they used sophisticated trojan software to steal almost £600,000 from bank accounts and send it to Eastern Europe.
London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday imposed sentences of as much as 4 and a half years on the men. According to IDG News, they used [...]

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Tool name :
DropzoneSMTP 0.1

Description :
A tool to send a data buffer via SMTP to a specific recipient. Thought as a simple and straigthforward dropzone.

Tested on :
Windows XP

Feedback :
In case you encounter any problems with the tool, you have suggestions to improve it, or you tested it with a Windows version i’ve not yet tested please [...]

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