Holidays finally arrived and I have a two week break. It was a stressful time and school kept me quite busy. There was not much time for computer stuff. Sorry about that :/ So the plan for the next two weeks is to finish and publish (with code) the digital bug thing. It’s an old [...]

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US regulators have frozen the assets of a Russian who they believe made a killing on the stock exchange by hacking servers. According to Wired, a federal judge in New York granted a petition from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and froze the assets of Broco Investments. Broco is a one man outfit [...]

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Tool name : FFLogDump 0.1   Description : FFLogDump is a tool to access the Firefox 3.* main logfile and extract details about sites the user visited. In this version cookie information, favorites/bookmarks and the browsing history are extracted.   Tested on : Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.1   Feedback : In case you encounter any [...]

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Around 16 per cent of the complaints involved scams where crooks pretend to represent the FBI, while 11.9 per cent involved the non-delivery of merchandise or payment, the second most commonly reported allegation of wrongdoing. 419 (advanced fee fraud scams) ranked third with 9.8 per cent of complaints. Identity theft and overpayment fraud scams were [...]

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The Mariposa botnet had the power to dwarf Georgia and Estonia cyberattacks if it had been used to launch denial of service attacks, say Spanish police. Months of investigations by the Guardia Civil in Spain, the FBI and security firm Panda Security and Defence Intelligence led to the takedown of the 12.7 million strong zombie [...]

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