I found an intresting article on the symantec blog why the old pattern matching AV method fails more and more and how they face this situation. A recommended reading during a coffee break. Reputation-based Security: Suspicious.Insight detections on Virus Total We recently upgraded our scanner on Virus Total to include our new reputation-based security engine. [...]

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Long-established privacy and cryptology website Cryptome.org was pulled offline on Wednesday after Microsoft launched a legal offensive over its publication of Redmond’s guide to internet wiretapping. Microsoft’s Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, a 22 page booklet designed solely for police and intelligence services, provides an overview of Microsoft’s online services, what information it collects on users [...]

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Tool name : MSNRecover version 0.1   Description : MSNRecover searches inside the Microsoft Credential management system for MSN authentication data. If such an entry was found targetname, comments, username and password are printed on the display.   Tested on : Windows XP   Feedback : In case you encounter any problems with the tool, [...]

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Russian security firm Intevydis has made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Firefox 3.6 available to its customers. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of a PC. Intevydis develops the commercial VulnDisco add-on for the also commercial Canvas exploit toolkit by vendor Immunity. On the Immunity forum, developer Evgeny [...]

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Czech security experts have uncovered a global network of devices attacked by computer viruses within which it was possible to wiretap and gain access to sensitive data, Jan Vykopal, head of the security project of Masaryk University, told CTK yesterday. Modems were among the attacked devices as they are only poorly protected. The viruses were [...]

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Russian police have arrested the hacker who last month projected some adult entertainment on an enormous video screen in Moscow, giving locals around two minutes unexpurgated coverage of “a white male and a black female having sex”. According to Pravda, the grumble flick appeared at 11pm on 14 January on an giant display on the [...]

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      Name Trj.Casper   Type RAT     Author Unknown     Written in C     Description This sourcecode dates back to 2004. It is quite old and its functionality is rather limited. The intresting part in this source code is the injection section which represents the biggest part of it. It [...]

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A skilled San Francisco computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also ordered to pay $27.5 million in restitution, and [...]

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The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires networks to provide interfaces that allow government to intercept data transmissions, just as they have long been able to tap telephone systems. But an IBM security researcher said criminals also could use the systems to wiretap the Internet. Tom Cross, manager of IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force [...]

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Cryptographers have broken the proprietary encryption used to prevent eavesdropping on more than 800 million cordless phones worldwide, demonstrating once again the risks of relying on obscure technologies to remain secure. The attack is the first to crack the cipher at the heart of the DECT, or Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, standard, which encrypts radio [...]

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