Monthly Archives: January 2009

Nintendo DS Hacking

Back in the day a friend’s father solder a mod chip into my Sony Playstation.  We were then able to rent PS1 games and copy them using a PC and a CD-R drive.  It was amazing — I think I … Continue reading

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Storm botnet makes a comeback

It is official: Storm is back. The notorious botnet that ballooned into one of the biggest botnets ever and then basically disappeared for months last year is rebuilding — with all-new malware and a more sustainable architecture less likely to … Continue reading

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Microsoft patches ‘super nasty’ Windows bugs

Microsoft Corp. patched three vulnerabilities in the company’s Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol, including two that could make “Swiss cheese” out of enterprise networks, according to one researcher.  “Expect to see a worm on this one in the very … Continue reading

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2008 Security in Review

Every year Cisco and IBM’s XForce release their yearly report highlighting the security space, what went wrong, biggest trends etc. Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics ***X-Force’s annual report will be released sometime … Continue reading

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McAfee releases January spam reports..

McAfee has released their January spam reports which can be found here January Spam Report and here State of Spam report.  Althought spam levels are elevated in the last few weeks it is nothing near what we were seeing before … Continue reading

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Penentration Test Scenario’s

I’ve recently been trying to teach my young cousin the basics of computer security.  I started by having him get the Backtrack live-cd which is geared for penetration testing. Once you have Backtrack running you need a dummy machine to … Continue reading

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The Last HOPE Conference

HOPE (abbreviation Hackers on Planet Earth or the first two letters in Hotel Pennsylvania) is a conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly. There have been seven conferences to date. You can get a copy of … Continue reading

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Four Threats For ’09 That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (Or Thought About)

What could keep you up at night in the new year may not be what you expect — a look at some of the lesser-known threats predicted for 2009….Click here for the complete article.

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