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Statistics from a Malware Embedded Attack

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2008-02-13 17:01:04 by HASH0x8bf8c1c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
It's all a matter of perspective. For instance, it's one thing to do unethical pen-testing on the RBN's infrastructure , and entirely another to ethically peek at the statistics for a sample malware embedded attack on of the hosts of a group that's sharing infrastructure with the RBN, namely UkrTeleGroup Ltd as well as Atrivo. For yet another...
 
Tags: malware, malware kit, hosts, malicious hosts, sample malware, infrastructure, vertuslkj, operational intelligence approach, statistics
 
 
 
 
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How Unsecure Is The Web?

2008-03-30 12:54:58 by Chenxi Wang in Security & Risk Management
 
In the course of doing research for my upcoming Internet threat report, I came across some worrisome statistics. A Google researcher recently reported approximately 1.3% of all Internet queries would return at least one URL that contain malicious content. A year ago, March 2007, this number was 0.3%. The same report also indicates that 6,000 out...
 
Tags: statistics, malicious content, malicious, worrisome statistics, report, internet threat report, million, web threat detection, million urls
 
 
 
 
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Brushing up on my math skills...

2006-07-21 04:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
I'm somewhat amazed on how I got myself into the world of Financial Derivatives . I do not have a quantitative degree (I majored in Management Economics) and didn't pay much attention to my math and statistics classes in college. Yet I find financial markets (derivatives in particular) fascinating. And becoming knowledgeable in them actually...
 
Tags: derivatives, topics, plain vanilla derivatives, discuss topics, quantitative finance topics, financial derivatives, quantitative finance, papers, research papers
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
Posted by Nagendra Modadugu, Anti-Malware Team In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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More High Profile Sites IFRAME Injected

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2008-03-12 09:49:36 by HASH0x8b74b5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
The ongoing monitoring of this campaign reveals that the group is continuing to expand the campaign, introducing over a hundred new bogus .info domains acting as traffic redirection points to the campaigns hardcoded within the secondary redirection point, in this case radt.info where a new malware variant of Zlob is attempting to install though...
 
Tags: info, info txmwxb, info kbsxet, info bhrsaa, info sezejc, info cgjttz, info wmtwes, info cqqxkh, info qwhhxq
 
 
 
 
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Q&A with Geoff Horne of InteropNet

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2008-06-25 16:20:59 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
Earlier this week I had the chance to sit down with Geoff Horne , Chief Architect for InteropNet , and discuss how he thought things went at Interop Vegas 2008 and how he thinks the lessons learned apply to enterprises Photo credit: The Tech Stop ScienceLogic: How long have you been involved with Interop Geoff Horne: Since about 1996...
 
Tags: geoff horne, network independently, network, core network, sciencelogic, vegas, interop vegas, interop, network management tools
 
 
 
 
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Motor Vehicle Crashes and Complex Event Processing

2007-12-31 03:19:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) coordinates Department of Transportations (DOT) research programs.RITAs mission is to advance the deployment ofmulti-disciplinary technologies to improve transportation system in the U.S Shaw-Pin Miaou, Joon Jin Song and Bani K. Mallick wrote a detailed paper, Roadway Traffic Crash...
 
Tags: motor vehicle crashes, complex event, traffic, manage traffic, joon jin song, song, roadway traffic crash, bayes methods, hierarchical bayes methods
 
 
 
 
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Pushdo - Web Based Malware as Usual

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2007-12-19 18:01:44 by HASH0x89b80bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Interesting assessment , especially the explanation of the GET variables, however, such descriptive use of POST variables to a malware's C&C server have been around for the last couple of years. What has logically changed is the added layer of obfuscation and complexity to make it hard to assess what does such a URL actually mean The malware...
 
Tags: malware, web based malware, pushdo, botnet masters circa, botnet masters, nuclear malware kit, botnet, pushdo author, botnet communication platforms
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Google, with its almost real-time crawling capabilities, has rarely proved useful while researching malware embedded sites who were cleaned before they could be analyzed, mainly popular sites who get crawled several times daily. However, Yahoo's and MSN's search engines, with MSN providing Archive.org type of historical crawling content, have...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites