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IT Dojo: How to spoof a MAC address

When you support small offices, home offices, and remote offices, you often run across older wireless equipment. Equipment that's likely secured with MAC filtering and perhaps a hidden SSID and WEP encryption.Most techs would agree that MAC filtering alone isn't going to secure a wireless network and that even WEP...

Tags: MAC, Information Technology, TechRepublic Inc., it dojo, bill detwiler, microsoft windows, security, wi-fi, wireless, wep, mac address, ssid, spoofing

Videos 2008-07-14

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ADmitMac 5.0 (Mac)

ADmitMac v3 allows Macintosh users running Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, or Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger with the latest updates, to participate in and take advantage of all the directory services provided by Microsoft's Active Directory, NT, and Apple's Workgroup Manager. As a result, administrators can manage their domain...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Administrator, Network, Domain, ADmitMac 5.0, Apple Mac OS X, Kerberos, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Web addresses to exend to non-English languages

Domain spoofing opportunity?I always wanted to know what they will be doing against this: http://www.z?net.com/ is actually a false domain because '?' is a Cyrillyc Small Letter Komi De insted of a Latin 'd'.Entering it in a browser causes an error today, but what will happen if they legalize non-latin...

Tags: Channel management, Keyboards, English Language, non-English-language, Web

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters

A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...

Tags: Anti-spam, LinkedIn, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?

Yes it does, at least according to a recently released report by the Business Software Alliance BSA which basically correlates data on the known piracy rates for particular countries and their malware infection rates, using public sources. The rationale behind their claims is fairly simple - users...

Tags: Software Piracy, Patch Management, Malware, Malware Infection Rate, Infection Rate, Patches, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-14

New Koobface campaign spoofs Adobe's Flash updater

Earlier this week, the botnet masters behind the most efficient social engineering driven botnet, Koobface, launched a new campaign currently spreading across Facebook with a new template spoofing Adobe's Flash updater embedded within a fake Youtube page. The malware campaign is relying on compromised legitimate web sites,...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CAPTCHA, YouTube Inc., Social Engineering, Worm, Gang, Koobface, 0x3E8/youtube/console=yes/, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Verizon slams AT&T in new TV ad; '5X coverage'

RealityYes, Verizon has a larger 3G coverage area. However, this DOES NOT mean you won't get coverage from AT&T in those areas. It just means you get slower speeds. The average joe doesn't get that. If the "average Joe" is using an iPhone 3G/S...trust me...they get...

Tags: Cellular phones, advertisement, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., CDMA, phone

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

SPOOFEM Desktop Application 1b (Windows)

The SPOOFEM Desktop Application lets you utilize all of SPOOFEM.COM's services from your desktop without opening a web browser. SPOOFEM is a caller ID spoofing service which allows users to call any number and have any 10 digit telephone number show up in the caller ID. It also includes features...

Tags: Phone, Caller ID, Microsoft Windows, SPOOFEM

Software downloads 2009-10-05

SPOOFEM Desktop Application 1b (Mac)

The SPOOFEM Desktop Application lets you utilize all of SPOOFEM.COM's services from your desktop without opening a web browser. SPOOFEM is a caller ID spoofing service which allows users to call any number and have any 10 digit telephone number show up in the caller ID. It also includes features...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, Caller ID, SPOOFEM

Software downloads 2009-10-04

Spam report: Old school techniques are back; companies on alert

An old school spamming technique among Internet bad guys - using images to hack their way into a system or spread viruses - is back. Google's e-mail security services team reported Spam trends for the third quarter in a blog post today and, among the findings was...

Tags: Technique, Team, Google Team, E-mail, Team Management, Online Communications, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Hijacking Windows System Restore for cybercrime profits

welp.... they are finally getting a taste of their own crap.I wonder what they are doing. We use steadystate on all of our machines. Reboot the machine and everything is restored.Maybe they should move from a PC based environment to a terminal server like system. Each reboot...

Tags: Terminal services, system restore, Hijacking Windows System Restore, cybercrime profit, SteadyState, operating system, terminal server, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Palm tattles on Apple, finds itself in the hot seat instead

Why?Apple has been proven to be far worse then Palm(read: Google Voice App), so what goes around, should come around.Untill Aplle confesses, and discontinue their shenanigans when it comes to apps on their devices, then they have no reason to voice any indignation against those that do the same thing...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., USB, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

IP Sniffer 1.98 (Windows)

IP Sniffer is a suite of IP Tools built around a packet sniffer. The packet sniffer can work on all Windows versions using either: the new raw socket implementation of Windows2000 driverless, WinPcap needs to be installed, a NDIS protocol (needs to be installed , no reboot). IP sniffer is...

Tags: IP, Microsoft Windows, TCP, Erwan L., IP Sniffer, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Network Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-14

IE8 outperforms competing browsers in malware protection -- again

A recently released study by NSS Labs is once again claiming that based on their internal tests, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 outperforms competing browsers like Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, Opera and Apple's Safari in terms of protecting their users against "socially engineered malware" and phishing attacks. Not...

Tags: Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, IE8, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict

Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...

Tags: Litigation, Digital media, RIAA, Thomas-Rasset

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL

One of the attributes that the paper discusses is the type of SSL certificate presented by a web server when negotiating a secure connection. Modern web browsers support both Domain Validated DV and Extended Validation EV SSL certificates. EV SSL certificates were created to combat phishing and other web based...

Tags: Black Hat, Web, SSL, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, PKI, Web Site Development, Network Security, Channel Management, Phishing, Security, Internet, Networking, Marketing, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2009-07-01

BitTorrent-powered iPhone App Store in beta

I don't know too many iPhone users that would call themselves dissatisfied with the App Store, but many people cross over to the dark side and jailbreak their phones to get access to software we'll never see in the App Store. There are numerous reasons why people...

Tags: Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharers

Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharersAnd after they lose alot of customers.. they will do what?I know these media companies think that ISP's should disconnect the users but why would an ISP cut off its feet?Its dumb. Let the courts handle it and if they dont want to, then...

Tags: INTERNET, sharer, file sharer, Virgin, piracy, suspension

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Firefox 3.0.11 fixes 67 bugs including bookmark corruption

Firefox 3.0.11 fixes 67 bugs including bookmark corruptionFirefox 3.0.11 fixes 67 bugs including bookmark corruptionThat's a lot of bugs. Now if they can just get 3.5 out the door.Hats off to the Mozilla FF Development Team!Go Open Source! ;)That's funny ...... I am sure you are one of the...

Tags: Web browsers, bookmark corruption, Firefox 3.0.11, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Firefox 3.0.11 fixes 67 bugs including bookmark corruption

The latest update to Firefox addresses 67 bugs and enhancements, according to Mozilla. 23 bugs were marked as "critical" or higher. (Coincidentally this was the same number addressed by the 3.0.9 update in April.) Nine potential security vulnerabilities were patched including 1 marked as "high" and 4...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, MFSA, Web Browsers, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-15