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posted in News & media on Jan 25th, 2010
China on Monday dismissed accusations of any official involvement in hacking attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, adding to tension between the two countries over the issue.
A Chinese official also defended online censorship of political topics and said the country would not change how it regulates the Internet, according to the official Xinhua news [...]
posted in News & media on Dec 28th, 2009
A former prison inmate has been ordered to serve 18 months for hacking the facility’s computer network, stealing personal details of more than 1,100 of its employees and making them available to other inmates.
Francis G. Janosko, 44, received the sentence earlier this week in federal court in Boston after pleading guilty to the hacking offenses [...]
posted in News & media on Dec 21st, 2009
2009 was dominated by sophisticated malicious programs with rootkit functionality, Conficker, web attacks and botnets, SMS fraud and attacks on social networks. With the start of 2010 quickly approaching, researchers and analysts from Kaspersky Lab have come up with a list of six predictions for what will be the New Year’s greatest threats and newest [...]
posted in Reading material, Stuff on Nov 27th, 2009
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 [...]
posted in External tools on Jul 26th, 2009
Tool name :
Tcpdump
Description :
Tcpdump is the IP sniffer we all used before Ethereal (Wireshark) came on the scene, and many of us continue to use it frequently. It may not have the bells and whistles (such as a pretty GUI or parsing logic for hundreds of application protocols) that Wireshark has, but it does the [...]
posted in External tools on Jul 12th, 2009
Tool name :
Aircrack
Description :
Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking [...]
posted in News & media, Tools & sources on Jul 8th, 2009
After a long time the Minipanzer version 0.1 is finally there and the source and binary files will be available for download the next two weeks. Yesterday I’ve finished the video I’ve promissed to produce. It took some time because I was not familiar with video processing and the required tools. A friend gave me [...]
posted in External tools on Jul 5th, 2009
Tool name :
Nikto
Description :
Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated (if desired).
Homepage [...]
posted in Stuff on Jun 26th, 2009
As in any other country also in Switzerland hacking activity is prohibited and will be prosecuted by law. So I definitely won’t help people asking for support hacking their email account because they have lost the password and refuse to call the provider to send it to them again by mail.
I’ll keep this mail Katarina [...]
posted in External tools on Jun 7th, 2009
Tool name :
SuperScan
Description :
SuperScan is a free Windows-only closed-source TCP/UDP port scanner developed by Foundstone. It includes a variety of additional networking tools such as ping, traceroute, HTTP HEAD/GET, and whois.
Homepage :
www.foundstone.com
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