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BitTorrent Spam Seeding Trojan Virus

2008-09-08 21:18:00 by David Kravets in Wired Security
 
Users of BitTorrent freebie tracking services should be on the lookout for spam e-mail containing a trojan virus. The e-mail, sent at random regardless of whether you are a BitTorrent user, contains an attachment that says it has information about your online surfing history
 
Tags: trojan virus, e-mail, spam e-mail, bittorrent freebie, bittorrent user, attachment, history, services, information
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Run Wild Spending BitTorrent Trackers Donations

2007-12-30 00:50:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The SuperTorrents BitTorrent tracker has been the subject of a major security breach, with hackers donating all the site's money to a religious group. The hackers even went as far as contacting the site's host and canceled all of their seedboxes
 
Tags: hackers, supertorrents bittorrent tracker, major security breach, site, subject, money, seedboxes, host, religious
 
 
 
 
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Popular BitTorrent Client Quietly Patched An Old Zero-Day Vulnerability

2008-08-14 17:29:00 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Popular BitTorrent client µTorrent has silently patched a vulnerability that created a means for hackers to load malware onto PCs of file sharing users by persuading them to open a poisoned Torrent file. The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.7.7 of µTorrent. Earlier versions may also be vulnerable. News of the bug emerged in a
 
Tags: file, vulnerability, torrent file, torrent, load malware, version, users, bug, versions
 
 
 
 
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Norwegian BitTorrent Tracker Norbits Under DDoS Attack

2008-09-20 03:03:38 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Norbits, the largest Norwegian BitTorrent tracker is going through some rough times. For several days now, the site has been offline due to a DDoS attack. The site has allegedly been hacked by a group called MORRADi, which is also speculating that it has managed to compromise the tracker and is threatening to release personal
 
Tags: tracker, norwegian bittorrent tracker, ddos attack, release personal, rough times, norbits, site, offline due, days
 
 
 
 
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My ISP gave NBC my packet history, and they're abusing it.

2007-12-13 22:50:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
My parents got a notice from our ISP today, telling us to stop pirating content from NBC. I had downloaded less than 1% of "Shaun of the Dead" (less than an hour of leeching from 0 leechers/2 seeders) before stopping the torrent and deleting the file. I haven't pirated anything since then. Now, I can't use BitTorrent anymore, even for legal stuff
 
Tags: leechers2 seeders, legal stuff, bittorrent anymore, isp, nbc, hour, stop, file, torrent
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 21:52:53 by HASH0x89e6354 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
Synopsis: Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #70, a 51-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions Download the show here (MP3, 21MB) or subscribe to...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Relay attacks on card payment: vulnerabilities and defences

2008-01-09 00:01:52 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
At this years Chaos Communication Congress ( 24C3 ), I presented some work Ive been doing with Saar Drimer : implementing a smart card relay attack and demonstrating that it can be prevented by distance bounding protocols. My talk ( abstract ) was filmed and the video can be found below. For more information, we produced a webpage and the...
 
Tags: dns, security, cellphone jammer dns, security michael steil, talks, henryk pltz describe, chaos communication congress, annie machon describes, arbitrary tcp streams
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 22:52:27 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
Synopsis: Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast #70, a 51-minute podcast from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions Download the show here (MP3, 21MB) or subscribe to...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Inside 'Net neutrality: Privacy and BitTorrent

2008-02-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473aa8 in Network World on Security
 
You might think that when you sign up with a high-bandwidth service plan with an ISP, you'll be able to transfer data at the advertised speeds. Yet that's not always the case: As we learned in part one of our network neutrality series, some ISPs have begun examining their customers' traffic, throttling back bandwidth, or talking to industry...
 
Tags: high-bandwidth service plan, bandwidth, network neutrality series, motion picture association, transfer data, network level, industry organizations, america, possibility