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- Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy
- Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...
- Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- OfficeIRC Server 2.3.287 (Windows)
- Corporate IRC Chat Server that allows a business to run their own public chat service or internal Instant Messaging IM system. Colleagues can send messages or files to each other within the office, at home or geographically separate sites. System allows messages to be sent encrypted, full logging, communicate with...
- Tags: IRC, Jabber, Microsoft Windows, Messaging, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-04-03
- 'Psyb0t' worm infects Linksys, Netgear home routers, modems
- More information has surfaced about the botnet "psyb0t," the first known to be capable of directly infecting home routers and cable/DSL modems. It was first observed infecting a Netcomm NB5 modem/router in Australia. Members of the website DroneBL, a real-time IP tracker that scans...
- Tags: Router, Worm, NetGear, Modem, Linksys Inc., DroneBL, Command & Control Channel, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxDid the BBC break the law?Surely what the BBC did was in contravention of the UK Computer Misuse Act?They made unauthorised changes to people's computers without their permission. Sophos has been asked many times by the media to take part in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Team management, SECURITY, Spam, team, British Broadcasting Corp., botnet, BBC team
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- 2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall
- 2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the WallInteresting proposalI like your idea. some thoughts:First: two separate approaches 1) a media center PC to output to the TV & 2) use consolesSecond: Allow for user created chat rooms (audio/text) like IRC channels with audio. That allows the end user...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Phelp
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection
- Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS, identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection approaches work only on specific botnet Command and Control (C&C) protocols (e.g., IRC) and structures (e.g., centralized), and can become ineffective as botnets change...
- Tags: Georgia Institute Of Technology, Network, Clustering, Protocol, Botnets, Identity Theft, Phishing, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2008-05-10
- Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell If you are even peripherally familiar with modern computer security issues, you have heard about the current struggle to identify and repair botnet drones. These botnet networks are the primary...
- Tags: Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- WirelessIRC (Mobile)
- WirelessIRC v1.20 is a native IRC client for your S60 3rd Edition phone with additional support for Twitter and Bonjour Local Chat.NEW! Twitter View, Event Scripting for Sounds/Replies/Posting on selective events, Info-Bubble on top of other Apps and more ...Chat with thousands of other people on the Internet Relay Chat...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, IRC, Window, WLAN, Twitter, WirelessIRC, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Internet, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-08-22
- Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic
- Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by trafficMike Cox must be out of town with his MS rep...And all his MCSEs are downloading it against his orders.Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by trafficProves one thing, linux is not capable of handling large server loads. Why anyone would use this hacked...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 7.04, 3D, Ubuntu, Linux, Feisty Fawn
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- IE 7 reaches 100 million users
- IE 7 reaches 100 million usersff uses a similar auto update feature...but yea in general IE users are less informed.It's the autoupdate, not the choosingthough it has gotten some users who were scared or fudded into ditching it to return. Firefox has offered a better browsing experience and features...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Desktops, Windows Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, spam, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- ISP and Egress Path Selection for Multihomed Networks
- Multihoming has been used by stub networks for several years as a form of redundancy, improving the availability of Internet access. More recently, Intelligent Route Control IRC products allow multihomed networks to dynamically switch parts of their egress or ingress traffic between ISPs, also improving cost and performance. IRC products...
- Tags: Georgia Institute Of Technology, Network, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Lime Wire, squeezed, files countersuit
- Lime Wire, squeezed, files countersuitLimewire = the right, RIAA still in the wrongthe RIAA has little public appeal... and Limewire is right that the RIAA and them are basically choking out any opposition...Limewire might profit from the P2P, but the fact that they can't stop people from doing illegal things...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, LimeWire, RIAA, Lime Wire
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Can you hear me now? Big Brother is listening
- In today’s threatcast Barrett Lyon and I resort to an air-gap technique to interview an engineer at ATT about the massive funneling of data and voice traffic into the NSA’s analysis centers. At first we looked into doing the interview directly with this guy, who we call Deep Packet,...
- Tags: Deep Packet, ATT
- Blog posts 2006-04-20
- Zotob worm finds its path limited
- Zotob worm finds its path limitedWHAT?! The sky wasn't falling?Gee, imagine that.not for my company!!Our entire network was affected. About a quarter of our 13,000 employees lost access to email for much of the day. All of our shared drive servers were down including many applications. ...
- Tags: Patches, infection, Zotob worm, job, security
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Australian man, ISP found guilty of piracy
- Australian man, ISP found guilty of piracyAnd I thought only judges in the US were stupidDoesn't make any sense. You can't hold ISPs accountable for what the users do. Period. THEY ARE NOT a policing force!! That's like saying car manufacturers are responsible for car crashes or gun manufacturers...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Web site development, Web technology, Manufacturing, MP3s4free.net, Grokster Ltd., Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-07-14
- Bot nets use Windows for wicked work
- Bot nets use Windows for wicked workWell there you goShadeTree!Well, gee......"found that more than 80 percent of Web traffic from the networks of compromised computers used four ports designated for resource-sharing by various versions of Windows."Over 90% of home computers are windows, I wonder why over 80% of attacks are...
- Tags: Operating systems, router, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
- Growth rate of Firefox usage slips
- Growth rate of Firefox usage slipsThis was expectedThe novelty has worn off. Unless FF is bundled with New PC's, joe user won't even know it exists.Other factors...At my place of employment, we downloaded Firefox and are running the installer from our local server. So I guess it shows as...
- Tags: Web browsers, novelty, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-02-28
- MySQL worm halted
- MySQL worm haltedwhaaa?you can run the MySQL services as anything less than administrator on a windows box????!or did I miss read the MySQL rep?Moral: use secure passwords, especially on the root account ntnt = no textRunning at root?Why didn't the MySQL team run their database as a seperate account, like...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Operating systems, MySQL, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-01-28
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