Archive for the ‘General InfoSec’ Category

Unsubscribing for the worse

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Have you ever unsubscribed from various bulk mailing programs? Be them opt-out (fancy name for spam), coupons, market research or whatnot? (more…)

Great loss for the RE community

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Just heard the news that Fjalar Ravia, better known as Fravia, passed away on Sunday, 3rd May 2009 after a long illness. (more…)

L0L at l0lw0rm

Monday, May 4th, 2009

I was looking through a repository of malware source codes the other day when I noticed a pretty small rar package, only 11kb in size and decided to take a closer look. The package was called l0lw0rm.rar. (more…)

Sour Marketing?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I received an newsletter from eEye yesterday. Normally I just dismiss those without taking a second look but this time I actually got pretty pissed. (more…)

Some people just don’t learn

Monday, April 6th, 2009

For those who haven’t read or just don’t remember, read this first. (more…)

Breaking news: Conficker became self aware!

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

This is what security experts around the world have feared for a long time. The conficker worm botnet grew big enough and 1 minute past midnight, on April 1st, it finally gained consciousness. (more…)

A /16 netblock banned from teamfurry.com

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I’m doing this with a bit mixed feelings since I know I might be blocking away valid users. But I feel this is the only way to start showing ISPs and other companies that they can’t go on doing whatever they like. (more…)

Scans for default Tomcat admin passwords

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I went through some sinkhole stats and spotted a few scans that looked like this: “GET/manager/html HTTP/1.1″. (more…)

Botnet running on MIPS CPU devices.

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Finally, something new :) An IRC capable bot has been making the rounds. Now, instead of infecting PC’s or servers this baby goes after DSL modems. (more…)

A little something that brightened my day

Friday, March 13th, 2009

So, I received a mail from “Peter Hu”, asking me to list him as a friend on Yahoo! IM. All the links in the mail led to yahoo.com so I figured what the heck, maybe someone want’s to congratulate me on my birthday. I’ve never used Yahoo! IM before so I figured ‘let’s see what’s behind this’. (more…)


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