In case you want to know more about the evolution of bots, and ease of assembling a botnet, why families take the largest zombie share compared to single bachelors only, or which technologies dominate the threatscape - go through the slides of this study on identifying "interesting" bot technologies within a large malware collection. Bot Feature & Technology Trends by Robert Lyda also highlights
Sunday, 6 August 2006
DVD of the Weekend - The Final Cut
Posted on 11:26 by Unknown
This weekend's featured DVD is a marvelous representation of a full-scale 1984 type of mass surveillance society, but compared to an utopian party acting as the caring BigBrother, here it's the inavitable advances of technology, and availability of services leading to the ultimate digital preservation of our entire living -- through our own eye-embedded implants. Worth taking your time to watch
Saturday, 5 August 2006
Future in Malicious Code 2006
Posted on 08:43 by Unknown
What's new on the malware front? Quite some new developments to be included in Q2's summary for 2006, I'm about to finalize any time now. Just came across to a great continuation of my original Malware - Future Trends publication, this time courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, quoting and further expending the discussion on my key points :- Mobile malware will be successfully monetized-
Thursday, 3 August 2006
Mobile Devices Hacking Through a Suitcase
Posted on 19:27 by Unknown
Define:nerd "Luca Carettoni and Claudio Merloni are security consultants at Milan, Italy-based Secure Network. The two created the BlueBag to raise awareness about the potential of attacks against Bluetooth-enabled devices, they said in an interview at the Black Hat security event in Las Vegas. The BlueBag is a roll-aboard suitcase filled with hardware. That gear is loaded with software to scan
Achieving Information Warfare Dominance Back in 1962
Posted on 10:36 by Unknown
The point here isn't the consolidation indicated in the article :"The consolidation involves Singer’s headquarters staff, and subordinate Naval Security Group Activities (NSGA) and detachments (NSGD). When fully completed, the action will combine the Navy's enlisted Cryptologic Technicians and Information Warfare officers into the same organization as the Navy’s Information Systems Technicians
Wednesday, 2 August 2006
One Time Password Generating Credit Card
Posted on 16:39 by Unknown
This is cute as it solves a major problem with customers having to use, and more easily lose tokens. Neat integration with the push of a button on the one time password generating credit card :"It took InCard four years to develop the card, Finkelstein said. The company combined technology from a Taiwanese display maker, a U.S. battery manufacturer and a French security team, he said. A Swiss
But Of Course It's a Pleasant Transaction
Posted on 06:02 by Unknown
Great example of automated bots attacking Ebay's core trust establishing process- the feedbacks provided by users taking advantage of the wisdom of crowds to judge on their truthfulness :"Again, a sharp eye may notice that feedback comments received from sellers are identical, and read almost in the same order. This is because most 1-cent-plus-no-delivery-cost sellers automate the whole
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