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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...Interestingly, the attack vector for this new attack appeared to be MySpace itself, rather than the usual email spam. To observe the phishers' actions, we fed them the login information for a dummy MySpace account. We saw that when phishers compromised a MySpace account, they added links to their phishing page on the stolen profile, which...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Blog Round-Up - December 2007

2008-01-03 15:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Interestingly, my post titled But What Does It ACTUALLY DO? where I expressed my frustration with some of the obscurity marketing also made it into Top 5 for the month And, finally, I need to leave some room (as #6 of 5 :-)) for my my logging polls ! Yes, they are popular too - and fun to read See you in January Possibly related posts / past...
 
Tags: blog round-up, monthly blog round-up, monthly, posts, database, database log management, popular posts, top, anti-virus efficiency
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 11:03:29 by HASH0x89eb6f0 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Interestingly, this number is also reachable via some other phone numbers Skype: +99000936 9992002622 FWD: **86919992002622 SIP: sip:9992002622@sip.voxeo.net And while we are NOT going to switch from using our SIP " bluebox@voipuser.org " address, it's nice to know that it is available Since I know many of our listeners like to know the code...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 12:01:39 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Interestingly, this number is also reachable via some other phone numbers Skype: +99000936 9992002622 FWD: **86919992002622 SIP: sip:9992002622@sip.voxeo.net And while we are NOT going to switch from using our SIP " bluebox@voipuser.org " address, it's nice to know that it is available Since I know many of our listeners like to know the code...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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All Your iFrame Are Point to Us

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2008-02-11 13:57:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
...Interestingly, Chinese malware distribution sites are mostly pointed to by Chinese web servers We hope that an analysis such as this will help us to better understand the malware problem in the future and allow us to protect users all over the Internet from malicious web sites as best as we can. One thing is clear - we have a lot of work...
 
Tags: malware distribution sites, malware distribution, malware, anti-malware team, malware payload, chinese web servers, servers, regular web sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption

2008-02-21 13:29:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Interestingly, if you cool the DRAM chips, for example by spraying inverted cans of canned air dusting spray on them, the chips will retain their contents for much longer. At these temperatures (around -50 C) you can remove the chips from the computer and let them sit on the table for ten minutes or more, without appreciable loss of data....
 
Tags: main memory chips, memory, todays dram memories, dram, dram contents, memory contents, disk encryption, hard, hard disk contents
 
 
 
 
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Got Milk? Stuff I did not know about data protection and privacy

2007-11-26 01:49:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...interestingly different Apparently a grocery chain was concerned about attrition and mined data about its customers from its loyalty program to understand this trend (I hope this grocer does not keep personally identifying information and has a good security and privacy policy in place!). They were specifically looking for something that...
 
Tags: milk purchase, purchase, reduce purchase frequency, data, milk, purchase frequency, mined data, mined, data-centric view
 
 
 
 
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Who guards the guard and evolution of the hackers?

2007-11-20 14:46:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...interestingly enough: The lesser hackers will become extinct as stronger ones evolve. As long as there is money to be made, I think we will see evolution
 
Tags: hackers, guards, paypal account information, rich argues, million, mike, lesser hackers, traditional security measures, schiefer
 
 
 
 
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CeBIT 2008: Green Security?

2008-03-14 09:15:59 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...interestingly enough, this world-leading security event (quote!) was in the same hall as the e-learning part of CeBIT) which featured larger representations from vendors with a significant European presence like: Utimaco Safeware, Kaspersky, BitDefender, Evidian, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, or Avira (Antivir). Security heavy weights like...
 
Tags: cebit, security, hall, security hall, cebit security world, security heavy weights, floor, junglesque floor representations, trend