January 30, 2009 4:23 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Anti-malware,
Cybercrime,
Malware,
TrojanTalk about irony. You get infected by a cybercriminal's illegal bot (Ozdok/Mega-D in this case) which takes a screen shot that shows you searching for illegal underage porn; then, security researchers get hold of some screen shots from the bot's command and control (C&C) server; while going...
January 23, 2009 2:15 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Malware,
Opinion,
Patch management,
Security,
Security bulletin,
Zero-day vulnerabilityThe latest mass infection to hit the Internet is the Win32/Conficker/Downadup Worm, estimated to have already infected between 500,000 and 8.9 million PCs, depending on whose numbers you believe. This is astounding, considering that the worm exploits a vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft
January 18, 2009 1:34 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Data destruction,
Data sanitization,
Secure Computing,
Secure drive wipe,
SecurityHow many times do you have to overwrite a hard drive in order to securely wipe it? This question has been at the center of an ongoing controversy for a long time. On the one hand, we've had Peter Gutmann saying it takes 35 passes (Gutmann, P. (1996) “
January 17, 2009 3:27 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Anti-malware,
Cybercrime,
Exploits,
Malware,
Secure Computing,
Security,
VulnerabilitiesWith cybercriminals now actively poisoning search results and legitimate websites--unbeknownst to the webmasters--you can't be too careful when clicking on links. Take a look at this video library presented by
January 14, 2009 2:28 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Email security,
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January 7, 2009 3:35 AM
Posted by: Ken Harthun
Cryptography,
hashing algorithm,
MD5,
Security,
SHA1,
VulnerabilitiesJust last week, two German security researchers, Alex Sotirov and Jacob Appelbaum, made a surprising announcement at the Chaos Communication Conference in Berlin: they had created a fraudulent Certificate Authority (CA) that had a valid signature from a root CA, Equifax, one of the oldest. The...
