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Drug Runners Stepping Up Mini-Sub Use

2008-10-01 21:40:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Latin American drug smugglers are stepping up their use of small, hand-made mini-subs in order to dodge U.S. military patrols in the eastern Pacific. The Coast Guard detected just 23 mini-subs between 2001 and 2007. This number "ballooned" to some 60 subs so far this year
 
Tags: subs, hand-made mini-subs, mini-subs, eastern pacific, military patrols, coast guard, dodge
 
 
 
 
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Asus Eee Box Mini PC Is Being Shipped With Virus

2008-10-08 18:05:57 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Some of Asus Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus, according to Asus who has recently released a warning in Japan. The company has only admitted the infection was present in machines shipped to Japan, but it seems that other territories may be affected too. PC Advisor reports that according to an email
 
Tags: asus, virus, advisor reports, japan, recently, territories, infection, email, machines
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Scott Lambert here. I work on the Security Engineering Tools team where we're responsible for researching, developing and publishing tools to internal product and service teams. These include fuzzing, binary analysis and attack surface analysis tools Previously, James Whittaker posted a blog entry on Testing in the SDL in which he mentioned that...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions
 
 
 
 
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Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire

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2008-07-22 03:52:14 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
What type of antivirus evasion do you want today? For the past several years, we have been witnessing the emerging customerization applied in malware and spyware for hire services. What used to be a situation where the malware authors would code and then start promoting a piece of malware including features that he thinks his potential customers...
 
Tags: malware, malware author, malware authors, malware binaries, malware attacks, ftp, ftp user, collects, malware industry
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
After reading Bruce Schneier s interview with TSA Administrator Kip Hawley I started thinking of all the explosives used in recent terrorist plots and how silly they were. As a kid, I loved going into the woods and playing with all sorts of dangerous stuff which of course included fireworks, gas cans, hair spray, propane tanks, etc. What I...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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Zune Killer App - Windows Media Center

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2007-11-26 21:55:40 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
I admit it, I did not buy a Zune last year when they were first released. I don't have a large music collection and I'm generally happy listening to the radio to get my music fix, or the digital music channels available from my cable company, if you will However, as some of you may realize from my previous postings (Vista Media Center Part 1 ,...
 
Tags: zune, apple tv, apple, tv, tv movies, zune software, zune tv comparison, media center, windows media center
 
 
 
 
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UNICEF Too IFRAME Injected and SEO Poisoned

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2008-04-01 07:42:20 by HASH0x8b227b4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
The very latest, and hopefully very last, high profile site to successfully participate in the recently exposed massive SEO poisoning , is UNICEF's official site. In fact the campaign is so successful, where successful means that each and every poisoned result loads the injected IFRAME using UNICEF.org as a doorway to pharmaceutical spam and...
 
Tags: seo, unicef, easy seo, site, site owner, iframe, unicef effect, massive seo, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Fiber: Review of Optics, Cables & Connectors

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2008-04-05 03:22:59 by JJ in Security Uncorked
When I started this blog, I said I wanted to give you useful information, sometimes in the form of lengthy technology overviews, and sometimes in short snippets. I like to dig around the search terms, comments and emails to see what you want to know more about, and Ive seen a lot of interest in fiber information The fiber types (such as...
 
Tags: cables, simplex fiber cables, fiber, connectors, fiber cables, short fiber runs, short, single-mode, single-mode fiber
 
 
 
 
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Minnesec 2.1

2008-07-11 15:05:07 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Mini-Minnesec next Tuesday, details here
 
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A Note Of Caution....

2008-07-23 12:45:25 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog