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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors for a while The allure of being self-sufficient doesnt seem to be a relevant one when it comes to a spammers results oriented attitude. Spammers excel at harvesting and purchasing email addresses , sending, and successfully delivering the messages, phishers are masters of social engineering, while on the other hand malware authors or...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Russia's FSB vs Cybercrime

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2007-12-20 15:44:16 by HASH0x89b8758 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors of the DIY malware Pinch . A populist move mainly because the Russian Business Network is still 100% fully operational, the Storm Worm botnet was originally launched and is currently controlled by Russian folks, and the lack of any kind of structured response on who was behind Estonia's DDoS attack. Pinch-ing the authors is one thing...
 
Tags: pinch, pinch authors, diy malware pinch, authors, malware authors, malware, notorious pinch trojan, source malware, pinch-ing
 
 
 
 
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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors themselves. In fact, the low detection rate is often pointed out as the quality of the crypting service by the authors themselves while advertising their malware or crypting services. And when a popular piece of malware known as Shark introduced a built-in VirusTotal submission to verify the low detecting rate of the newly generated...
 
Tags: malware authors start, malware authors, malware, authors, services, malware services, start, malware product, malware campaign
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 08:38:35 by HASH0x8b6ca50 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...authors of one of the blogs, belsec , that they are under assault by the EU government. It seems in their wisdom, the European Parliament has decided that in the interests of "media pluralism", all blog owners should declare their ownership, affiliations and status of weblog authors The explanatory notes of the proposed regulation says this...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, legal status, blog owners, status, blog, bloggers rights, european parliament
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 09:38:11 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...authors of one of the blogs, belsec , that they are under assault by the EU government. It seems in their wisdom, the European Parliament has decided that in the interests of "media pluralism", all blog owners should declare their ownership, affiliations and status of weblog authors The explanatory notes of the proposed regulation says this...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, bloggers rights, freedom, legal status, blog owners, basic freedom, status
 
 
 
 
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Yet Another DIY Proprietary Malware Builder

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2008-05-21 09:18:09 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...authors continue emphasizing on the product concept, namely they build a malware based on their perception of what a malware should constitute of, then start offering it for sale as well as it's source code. In the long-term however, based on the increasing number of malware and spyware coding on demand, malware authors would undoubtedly...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, malware authors continue, malware benefit, open-source malware segment, malware based, diy malware tools, zeus remains publicly, zeus
 
 
 
 
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Theme is back

2007-11-28 12:54:24 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Authors and About pages dont work yet , but these are being worked on. If you spot any other problems, please leave a comment on this post, or email lbt-admin @cl.cam.ac.uk Update 2007-11-28: Authors and About should now work
 
Tags: authors, email lbt-admin, dan cvrek, theme, maintainable, compatible, blix, cam, post
 
 
 
 
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A cryptographic hash function reading guide

2007-11-23 16:01:18 by George Danezis in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...authors of RIPEMD-160 that is still considered secure, an algorithm worth studying Hash functions do look like block ciphers under the hood, and an obvious idea might be to adapt aspects of AES and turn it into such a function. Whirlpool does exactly this, and is worth reading about. One of its authors, Paulo Barreto, also maintains a very...
 
Tags: function, hash functions, cryptographic hash functions, functions, functions secure, design, hash function design, compression functions, secure hash function
 
 
 
 
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RBAC Standard Rationale: Comments on "A Critique of the ANSI Standard on Role-Based Access Control"

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
As the authors of the original proposal for the role-based access control (RBAC) standard and developers of the models from which it derives, the authors respond here to Ninghui Li, Ji-Won Byun, and Elisa Bertino's critique, which also appears in this issue. This is an opportune time in the revision cycle to introduce proposals for changes to...
 
Tags: standard, access control, authors respond, authors, revision cycle, critique, rbac, introduce proposals, ji-won byun