posted in News & media, Stuff on Feb 18th, 2010
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 city’s [...]
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posted in Info, Off topic, Stuff, Tools & sources on Feb 8th, 2010
So I am back again after one week away from the keyboard. I was not completely off-line but I reduced the efforts to a minimum. Recreation and preparation work for the exams had the main priority.
What I am going to release next is some kind of a digital bug. It’s a small piece of software [...]
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posted in Info, Stuff, Tools & sources on Jan 28th, 2010
The new code that extracts the Firefox account data out of the SQLite database is more or less done. If everything goes well I’ll upload the new sourcecode tonight (Swiss time) in a new version of the FFPasswordRecovery tool.
During spring I plan to conduct some tests with the SkypeTap plugin and other instant messengers. If [...]
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posted in Articles, Off topic, Stuff on Jan 20th, 2010
From time to time the documents I’ve stumbled uppon in the Internet or people recommended me and I’ve considered as interesting were put on the server and announced afterwards in the blog. Things that seem interesting to me may also be of your interest. The same thing with the software from other places. On the [...]
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posted in Stuff, Tools & sources on Jan 6th, 2010
I uploaded some screenshots of the VoIP-Recorder web GUI. For the end user it looks about like this when using the GUI for processing the intercepted Skype calls …
Further screenshots will be posted here.
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This article will take you through the basic steps of building an executable crypter. All of the steps performed in this
article require manual setup and integration to prepare the exe for the crypter stub. The focus of this article is to
walk you through the theory and knowhow
of how crypters work and does not attempt to [...]
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posted in Antivirus, News & media, Stuff on Jan 1st, 2010
An extract from Brian Krebs last blog post.
I have often recommended file-scanning services like VirusTotal and Jotti, which allow visitors to upload a suspicious file and scan it against dozens of commercial anti-virus tools. If a scan generates any virus alerts or red flags, the report produced by the scan is shared with all of [...]
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posted in Deutsch, Stuff on Dec 29th, 2009
Die Internettelefonie über Skype galt eigentlich als sicher. Das dem nicht so ist, wurde im vergangenen Sommer bekannt. Der «SonntagsBlick» berichtete Ende August über Ruben Unteregger, der den Quelltext für einen entsprechenden Trojaner im Internet veröffentlicht hatte. Unteregger ist ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter des Schwyzer Unternehmens Era IT Solutions . 2006 deckte die «SonntagsZeitung» auf, dass [...]
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posted in Deutsch, Stuff on Dec 27th, 2009
Ruben Unteregger aka Megapanzer demonstriert mit seiner Veröffentlichung, dass man auch die aktuelle Version der VoIP-Software Skype problemlos zum Abhören von Gesprächen missbrauchen kann.
Der Programmierer arbeitete früher rund 7 Jahre für das Schweizer Unternehmen ERA IT Solutions und war dort für die Erstellung von Schadsoftware zuständig. Dem Unternehmen wird nachgesagt, dass sie auch im Auftrag [...]
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posted in News & media, Stuff on Nov 29th, 2009
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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