Zombies inevitably turning into botnets represent a huge, automated and efficient advantage to malicious attackers, I topic and most of its dimensions I covered in my Future trends of malware research. CipherTrust's Zombie Stats help you measure the approximate population of infected zombie PCs according to the vendor's TrustedSource. Not surprisingly, China's steadily increasing novice Internet
Thursday, 29 June 2006
The WarDriving Police and Pringles Hacking
Posted on 18:52 by Unknown
These days you never know where the next hacking attempt on your wireless network may come from. In this case, it's from the police, as authorities start mimicking wardriving behavior :"The Douglas Country Sheriff's DOffice says it's going to start warning computer users that their networks may be vulnerable to hackers. The Sheriff's Department plans to equip several of its community service and
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
North Korea - Turn On the Lights, Please
Posted on 18:56 by Unknown
North Korea's recent missile launch furor, and the obvious conventional weaponry doctrine in place, as well as my comments in the Travel Without Moving series - Korean Demilitarized Zone, reminded me of a how they tend to fuel growth in military spending/the regime, where the trade-off is a developing economy, or any economy at all. I feel North Korea is still quite dark these days, very
Tracking Down Internet Terrorist Propaganda
Posted on 18:27 by Unknown
I always knew there's a team of cheap marketers behind every terrorist organization trying to market yet another multimedia killing, or put it simple fear, treats, and no respect for life. Why cheap? Mainly because there's no segmentation or niche issues to deal with, but mostly mass marketing, while harnessing the power of the never ending resonation from the media echo.Rather biased, today's
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Delicious Information Warfare - 24/27 June
Posted on 17:35 by Unknown
Go through my daily reads for 13/24 June as well.01. Meteorite Collision - "Japanese animation showing what would happen if a giant meteor hit the Earth." to Space on june 2502. Should We Lift North Korean Sanctions? - "Quentin Hardy summed up his side’s argument: “Capitalism has corrupted other authoritarian regimes, why not North Korea?”to Investing on june 2503. The ABCs of New Security
Malicious Web Crawling
Posted on 08:34 by Unknown
SiteAdvisor indeed cashed for evaluating the maliciosness of the web, and New Zealand feels that nation wide google hacking initiatives are a more feasible solution to the problem of google hacking, compared to the Catawba County Schools Board of Education who blamed Google for indexing student test scores & social security numbers. It's like having a just-moved, 25/30 years old neighbors next
Monday, 26 June 2006
Shots From the Wild - Terrorism Information Awareness Program Demo Portal
Posted on 18:54 by Unknown
A lot has changed since my last post on "Data mining, terrorism and security", namely NSA's warrantless surveillance efforts. So, in the spirit of a second possible NSA facility, I've decided to post a shot from the TIA's early stages of development obtained though the most detailed, conceptual, and from a developer's point of view description of the program.There've also been speculations on the
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