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The 802.1X Hat-Trick

2008-06-30 02:39:27 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...trick to blame for my slack blogging habits. Over the past few weeks, Ive had back-to-back 802.1X implementations, one wired, one wireless and one with both. Two government customers and one commercial, not in that order. And I even did one semi-training-slash-semi-implementation-quick-start for another customer Its been fun, but 1X is always...
 
Tags: customers, government customers, variety, real world, implementations, wireless aps, actual implementations, wireless, address issues
 
 
 
 
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O.J. Simpson guilty verdict could lead to malicious spam

2008-10-06 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Friday's conviction of former pro football star O.J. Simpson on charges related to the armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers could be used by malicious spammers to trick computer users, according to MX Logic
 
Tags: sports memorabilia dealers, trick computer users, pro football star, malicious spammers, simpson, armed robbery, friday, charges, conviction
 
 
 
 
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Fake Directory Listings Acquiring Traffic to Serve Malware

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2008-04-30 03:17:00 by HASH0x8b233c0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...trick in here? Using image files as bites to malware binaries, and acquiring traffic by generating fake directory indexes with hundreds of thousands of popular or segment specific keywords in the filenames, while attempting to trick the impulsive leecher by forcing a direct loading of anything malicious? Creative, at least according to...
 
Tags: fake directory, malicious, fake directory indexes, non-malicious download, live exploit urls, file, malicious magic, load image files, image files
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...trick the recipient into thinking that it is a legitimate message. For legitimate mails there is no reason to enter the recipients email address in the subject, so the presence of this is a pretty sure sign of spam 7. Message body is base64 encoded : Spammers use base64 to encode the message headers and body so that spam filters are not able...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Using FasterFox Prefetching

2008-01-03 16:18:15 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...trick FasterFox-users (in forums) without having to use HTML/BBcode for embedding images Alex is absolutely right. In fact, this is the exact reason I never used to use Opera. Sure you can turn it off, but pre-fetching has always been a dangerous thing to me. It can speed things up because it pre-fetches and caches the results, but if it...
 
Tags: fasterfox, firefox prefetches, trick fasterfox-users, http-auth dialog pops, link, http-auth dialog immediately, firefox, email, people
 
 
 
 
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Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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2007-12-15 08:35:11 by HASH0x89f6724 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...trick taking advantage of the momentum by proactively anticipating the rush of visitors to the site. Another such recent combination of tactics aimed to increase the lifecycle of the malware embedded attack by embedding it at Chinese Internet Security Response Team's site during the China's "Golden Week" holiday According to McAfee " Web...
 
Tags: malware, attack, malware attack, malware downloaders, media malware gang, loads, web site, site, php
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #72: Asterisk security vulnerabilities, Skype and the German government, VoIP security news, listener comments and more

2007-12-31 17:59:51 by HASH0x89c0fb4 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Trick AT&T Comment (email) from Shawn Merdinger Comment (email) from Yann Cloatre Comment (email) from Miguel Garcia Comment (email) from Roel Villarius about Dutch spam filter Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list Wrap-up of the show 25:27 - End of show Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as...
 
Tags: voip, voip security news, comments, listener comments, voip news, voip security podcast, listener comment line, blue box, comment
 
 
 
 
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New rootkit uses old trick to hide itself

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software
 
Tags: malicious software, hide, decades-old technique, past month, antivirus software, type
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #72: Asterisk security vulnerabilities, Skype and the German government, VoIP security news, listener comments and more

2007-12-17 20:44:56 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Trick AT&T Comment (email) from Shawn Merdinger Comment (email) from Yann Cloatre Comment (email) from Miguel Garcia Comment (email) from Roel Villarius about Dutch spam filter Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list Wrap-up of the show 25:27 - End of show Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as...
 
Tags: voip, voip security news, comments, listener comments, voip news, voip security podcast, listener comment line, blue box, asterisk security vulnerabilities