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Facebook's "Secret Crush" malicious widget tricks users

2008-01-03 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Facebook "Secret Crush" malicious widget tricks users into downloading adware, according to Fortinet IT Audit Checklists Advertisement Prepare for your next internal IT audit. Checklists cover security, risk management, PCI, and more
 
Tags: secret crush, audit, checklists cover security, audit checklists, risk management, facebook, advertisement, pci, fortinet
 
 
 
 
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12 Sly Web Tricks That Put You in Control

2008-08-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b9c16c in Network World on Security
 
...tricks. We'll teach you why and how (and with what) to do them, and tell you how well you can expect them to work. And you will forget where you heard this information
 
Tags: monitors upside, sly tricks, tech arsenal, friday afternoon, cell phone, spy kit, weekend, time, beef
 
 
 
 
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Election deception: The Web's 12 dirtiest tricks

2008-10-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b45048 in Network World on Security
 
Political campaigns in the United States are notorious for inspiring dirty tricks and nasty tactics. Now, in the most tech-attuned presidential race to date, the dark art of misleading voters is growing even more malignant than it was in the past
 
Tags: political campaigns, dirty tricks, presidential race, dark art, nasty tactics, notorious, voters, past, malignant
 
 
 
 
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Bypassing Anti-Virus with Metasploit

2008-11-22 12:15:36 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
Bypassing Anti-Virus with Metasploit This video from John Strand shows how to bypass anti virus tools utilizing the new tricks in Metasploit 3.2
 
Tags: metasploit, anti-virus, john strand, video, tricks
 
 
 
 
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Testing Signature-based Antivirus Products Contest

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2008-05-02 06:31:36 by HASH0x8b205fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...tricks The bad guys will learn new tricks from the good guys modifying binaries to prove that anti virus signature scanning isn't working? There's no shortage of creativity and innovation on behalf of malware authors, and in reality,the good guys are supposed to learn from the bad guys in the sense of the techniques, tools and tactics they...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, malware variants, signature based malware, bad guys, guys, proprietary malware tools, tools, alternative malware
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...tricks from hackers, we believe there is an ongoing benefit to re-emphasizing staff awareness about cyber-security issues," "We must not click on e-mail attachments if we are not absolutely sure who the e-mail is from and we must not click on [URLs] embedded in e-mails unless we are certain of the source." - Laboratory Director Thom Mason ...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...tricks necessary to make it that small. Hes absolutely right, of course, but thats a red herring. See, there are two types of obfuscation, which may be beyond the grasp of people who dont actually work in this field. The first type is obfuscation to create short/lean code. The second is obfuscation for filter evasion (MD5ing something, hex...
 
Tags: browser companies, browser, browser security arena, code, people visit, people, worm code, diminutive xss worm, xss worm
 
 
 
 
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Autorun: good for you?

2007-09-23 05:29:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...tricks again Updated, 22 September 2007. Turns out there's a registry key that keeps track of all USB drives your computer has ever seen, and this key will override the Autorun settings if you insert a drive that your computer has seen before. So in addition to changing Autorun, you'll also need to delete this other key. Write a little...
 
Tags: autorun, autorun raises, autorun commands, autorun settings, key, registry key, disable autorun, computer, computer configuration
 
 
 
 
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Relay attacks on card payment: vulnerabilities and defences

2008-01-09 00:01:52 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Tricks Dan Kaminsky describes the DNS Rebinding attack and demonstrates tunneling arbitrary TCP streams over a browser Mifare Karsten Nohl and Henryk Plötz describe how they reverse-engineered the Mifare encryption algorithm, Crypto1, and the weaknesses they discovered Steam-Powered Telegraphy Jens Ohlig et al. demonstrate their Internet...
 
Tags: dns, security, cellphone jammer dns, security michael steil, talks, henryk pltz describe, chaos communication congress, annie machon describes, arbitrary tcp streams
 
 
 
 
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Phishers use DNS tricks to direct users to bad sites