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Darpa Brain Drain Costs Agency $32 Million

2008-06-18 19:32:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Due to Darpa's shortage of qualified staff, the Pentagon says that the premiere research agency "continues to underexecute" and reassigns $32 million of its funding to other defense projects
 
Tags: premiere research agency, defense projects, million, darpa, pentagon, due, underexecute, staff, reassigns
 
 
 
 
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Malware Attack Exploiting Flash Zero Day Vulnerability

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2008-05-27 17:33:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
It's been a while since we've last witnessed malware attacks using zero day vulnerabilities, and the latest one exploiting a zero day in Adobe's flash player is definitely worth assessing. The current malware attack has been traced back to Chinese blackhats, who are using a zero day to infect users with password stealers, moreover, one of the...
 
Tags: flash, malware, macromedia flash content, flash content, sample flash file, adobe flash player, adobe, participation domains, domains
 
 
 
 
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The FirePack Exploitation Kit - Part Two

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2008-04-27 04:27:00 by HASH0x8ae4cf0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Has the web malware exploitations kits cash bubble popped already? A recently released, yet another proprietary version of the Firepack malware exploitation kit and its largely decreased price from the original one, which in February was $3000, speaks for itself. Firepack's original version was a great example of biased exclusiveness on behalf...
 
Tags: nuclear malware kit, malware kit, kit, metaphisher malware kit, icepack malware kit, original firepack kit, malware exploitation kit, php, scanners result
 
 
 
 
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Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software

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2008-06-05 07:59:47 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
A black SEO farm with built-in redirection to a multitude of sites serving rogue codecs (Zlob malware variants) and fake security software phoning back to UkrTeleGroup Ltd's network - could it get even more interesting? Of course, as the current state of Zlob malware serving tactics can be seperated in two distinct groups, those abusing the...
 
Tags: sites, profile sites, multimedia sites, codec sites, zlob variants, zlob, zlob malware variants, rogue codec sites, domains
 
 
 
 
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Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing

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2008-03-27 21:12:29 by HASH0x8b4fa7c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage , Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk, StopBadware commenting on XP Antivirus 2008 , and US-CERT issuing a warning about the incident, after...
 
Tags: massive, single massive seo, profile sites, profile sites iframe, attack, seo, malware, malware attack, massive blackhat seo
 
 
 
 
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It's Router Upgrade Time As AS Numbers Expand

2008-07-28 22:25:12 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
The fact that we're running out of IPv4 addresses is reasonably well-known by now, but it's not the only declining network resource on the Internet. 'AS' or Autonomous System numbers, which uniquely identify networks for the Internet's BGP routing infrastructure, are also running out, and on a similar timeline. AS numbers, like IP addresses, are...
 
Tags: internet, regional internet registries, ipv4 addresses, 32-bit, networks, network management software, addresses, 16-bit, similar timeline
 
 
 
 
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It's Router Upgrade Time as AS Numbers Expand

2008-07-28 22:25:12 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
The fact that we're running out of IPv4 addresses is reasonably well-known by now, but it's not the only declining network resource on the Internet. "AS," or Autonomous System, numbers, which uniquely identify networks for the Internet's BGP routing infrastructure, are also running out, and on a similar timeline. AS numbers, like IP addresses,...
 
Tags: internet, regional internet registries, ipv4 addresses, 32-bit, networks, network management software, addresses, backward compatibility, 16-bit
 
 
 
 
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Some IPFW students exposed through malware

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2007-11-29 13:26:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 11/16/07 Organization Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Certain current and former "mostly international" students Number Affected 32 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers (and Individual Taxpayer Identification numbers ...
 
Tags: purdue university, university, information, personal information, university department, university fort wayne, computer, vulnerable information, students
 
 
 
 
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Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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2007-12-15 08:35:11 by HASH0x89f6724 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Keep your allies close, the human right violators closer. French officials have been receiving lots of criticism by human rights groups regarding Moammar Gadhafi's visit in France, in fact Human Rights Watch issued a press release entitled Al-Qadhafi in France . Despite the logical response in the form of criticism, it's lacking the long-term...
 
Tags: malware, attack, malware attack, malware downloaders, media malware gang, loads, web site, site, php