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Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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2008-03-31 03:21:55 by HASH0x8b37d14 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...commodity, anyone can download them, modify them to have the stolen data forwarded to a third-party, backdoor them to have phishers scamming the phishers, facts that are shifting the emphasis on the segmentation, malicious economies of scale concept, the spamming process of phishing emails, and of course, the arms race between the targeted...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain
 
 
 
 
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Security Assessment Economics

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2008-06-12 21:03:59 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...commodity market Security controls assessment is a commodity market PCI assessment is a commodity market Most MSSP (or rather, Security Device Management Service Providers) services are commodity markets Now my boss said the first one to me about 4 months ago and it really needed some time for me to grasp the implications. What we mean by...
 
Tags: assessment, market, market simply, security, commodity market, people, quality people, assessment costs, assessment results
 
 
 
 
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A Hot Cloudless Computing Day in Florida

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2008-06-24 19:46:12 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...commodity; IT is a commodity. Remember Nick Carrs controversial book, Does IT Matter Gartner Counterpoint: IT is not a commodity because of constant innovation. So its not about a big investment in old/stagnating technology but more about developing and investing in agility. There will be not a few cloud computing providers but thousands A...
 
Tags: gartner, gartner counterpoint, cloud, ecco cloud, gartner predictions, 8am versus 10am, infrastructure services, time, services
 
 
 
 
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A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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2008-04-01 06:25:00 by HASH0x8b4eee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...commodity tools and services, malicious parties within the underground economy continue applying basic market approaches to further commercialize what was once a tax free area. Commercial click fraud tools , managed spamming services and fast-fluxing on demand , botnets and DDoS attacks as a service , malware pitched as a remote access tool...
 
Tags: malware, malware attack, approaches, defacers, creative approaches, site, entire defacers community, defacers deface, deface
 
 
 
 
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Cloud Computing Defined #1

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2008-04-17 21:38:20 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...commodity based hardware as its base. Hardware can be replaced at anytime and have no effect on the cloud 2) It uses commodity based software containers. For example an image should be able to be pulled from one cloud provider to any other cloud provider Some secondary characteristics are 1) Virtualization 2) Abstraction layer for the...
 
Tags: cloud, holy grail cloud, cloud provider, hardware, commodity based hardware, primary, primary characteristics, dynamic horizontal, secondary characteristics
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet Master's To-Do List

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2008-04-26 14:36:23 by HASH0x8ae3c28 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...commodity for experienced botnet masters to sent to novice ones, is entirely up to the coder, or perhaps module copy and paster. Some are going as far as implementing quality assurance approaches to ensure their malware has the lowest possible detection rate, before spreading it, on the anti malware and firewall level , while others are...
 
Tags: botnet, commodity malware bots, malware bots, to-do list, wannabe botnet masters, malware, botnet masters, malware botnets, anti malware
 
 
 
 
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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
...commodity web malware exploitations kits such as IcePack and MPack The original Firepack kit came with six exploits included within, and more to come in the scheduled updates to come. The exploits, and the current signature based detection rates are as follows FF5B341AC.php - MSIE 6 EF57CCF90.php - MSIE 7 EF57CCF90.php - Firefox 1...
 
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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Summarizing June's Threatscape

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2008-07-01 07:05:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...commodity good and often a bargain 03. Blackhat SEO Redirects to Malware and Rogue Software - Sampling an active blackhat SEO campaign out of the hundreds of thousands currently active online, releaved a large portfolio of domains serving Zlob variants by pitching them as fake codecs that the end user should download if they are to...
 
Tags: site, fake youtube site, web site defacements, malware, malware hosts, web site defacer, sites, vulnerable sites, malicious
 
 
 
 
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NISTS FISMA Pase IIWho Certifies Those who Certify the Certifiers?

2008-06-17 21:22:09 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...commodity market: I covered this last week . This is pivotal, remember it for later Misinformation abounds: Because the NIST Risk Management Framework evolves so rapidly, whats valid today is not the same that will be valid in 2 years So what were looking at with this blog post is how would a program to certify the C&A service providers look...
 
Tags: services, boutique services, risk, risk-avoidance cultures, accreditation services, company-level certification, security risk, certification, certification program