In these wee small hours of 2008, some quick thoughts.
Researchers have broken SSL CA root certificates via the MD5 collision issues. No great surprise, I think anyone who gave this some serious thought saw this coming. End of the world? No, not really. Invalid SSL certs rarely stop anyone. This will make it tougher to [...]
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UPDATED to fix the HREF. Thanks to all who noted it to us :)
Botnets were just the beginning. The bad guys will continue to use these to try and steal your data, but more sophisticated attacks over the application layer and targeted network attacks are on the way. In this Network World Podcast, Danny McPherson from Arbor Networks discusses the new ways that hackers will be trying to [...]
But this time it’s not Storm, nor does it even seem at all like Storm. This one is dubbed Waldec. Infection strategy: entice email users to come to the website and get a greeting card. No graphics, but it will entice you anyhow. “Daniel just mailed to you an Online greeting card.” Thanks, Daniel!
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Today it’s an American Express phish. In the past few weeks it’s been JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, CitiGroup, Colonial Bank, and many others. All of them are using fast flux hosting techniques on the same hosts. I don’t know the name of this botnet (either the malcode or the coloquial name) but it sure [...]
