SecurityFocus’ Robert Lemos published a number of months back an article in which he suggests that naming viruses is currently a lost cause. In the article, he mentioned how numerous security companies had warned their customers about a computer virus that had been programmed to delete files on the third of each month, but almost [...]
I regularly use wireless networks at meetings, conferences, airports, hotels, workshops, coffee joints, friend’s homes (and mine) – as I suspect is the case with most folks these days. I often leave Dug’s passive listening toolkit running in the background (where network usage licensing/agreements implicitly permit, of course :-) just to see what type of [...]
The Evil Bit! I’ve been thinking about RFC-3514 often over the last few quarters; that and what should be its cousin: the Stupid-Bit. I know you’re shaking your head now – poor CTO…too much time in the sales/marketing dunk tank. I’m serious, though. Not that you should be able to look at a bit in [...]
HD Moore recently released a malware search engine. Dan Hubbard and the team at Websense had released an announcement that they had been able to use Google to find malware specifically. HD Moore was evidently frustrated that they didn’t get a copy of the code (evidently all he had to do was ask …), and [...]
Back in November 2005, Bruce Schneier wrote about a Western Union-related fraud. This week, I was exposed to some of the techniques used by eBay sub-geniuses and their use of Western Union. I deal primarily in buying and selling rare and hard-to-find comics on eBay, which doesn’t see much fraud activity, and as a result [...]
