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Monthly Archives: June 2010
HTCIA’s 2010 Report on Cyber Crime Investigation
The High Tech Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) has released their 2010 Report on Cyber Crime Investigation. Nothing earth shattering here. Security professionals report: Increase in criminal use of digital technology Lack of dedicated personnel Need for better training at multiple … Continue reading
Firefox: Prevent tabnapping
There’s a new anti-tabnapping feature in NoScript, the Firefox browser add-on. It’s not exactly straight forward to enable…(from the Security Now podcast) I learned via Twitter from Alejandro, whose twit handle is @microtwit32, that NoScript, the favorite script blocker for … Continue reading
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System7 WordPress 3.0 upgrade
The System7 website has been updated to WP 3.0. The automatic upgrade option worked flawlessly. Now, when will Drupal get their act together and realize they need to improve their upgrade procedure? You can read about some of the more … Continue reading
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(tool) HTTPS Everywhere
There’s a new Firefox add-on, HTTPS Everywhere, jointly developed by Tor and the EFF. If a website has an SSL certificate, the add-on will automatically redirect the user to the page’s https address. The add-on comes loaded with a default … Continue reading
Malware Analyzers
(This article was originally published on June 9, 2009 — new resources added below) Do you ever receive a suspicious file via email or hesitant to download software from a webpage? You can upload the executable to one of the … Continue reading
“Who is blocking WHOIS?”
I just read an interesting article Who is blocking Whois. It turns out that ICANN stipulates all registrars must provide WHOIS database access via port 43. Garth Bruen, knujon.com, did a full analysis of all registrars testing their WHOIS database … Continue reading
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win32 memory capture & analysis cheat sheet
A high level overview to perform live memory captures and analysis: capture memory via moonsol’s win32dd parse memory snapshot with mandiant’s memoryze analyze results via audit viewer or analyze using the volatility framework — neatly packaged in SAN’S Sift Workstation
(Tool) FireShark: Aid for web incident response
The tool of the day is FireShark, a free web analysis tool. This is great to have in your toolbox for IR. FireShark will generate a mind map of a given webpage — think of it being a graphical representation … Continue reading
Ubuntu can bypass iPhone pin to read data?
According to this zdnet article, when plugging your iPod into an Ubuntu machine the device is mounted without ever being prompted for a PIN code. This is working on non jail broken iPhones. I’m surprised the article only names Ubuntu … Continue reading
DNS Performance & Security…
I’ve gotten tired of Road Runner’s DNS redirection/hijacking service which I opt out of yet it keeps coming back. I decided to do some DNS benchmarking, comparing my assigned ISP name servers against publicly provided DNS such as Google. The … Continue reading