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Inside insight = zero day pro
Ever wonder who you are buying those zero day exploits from?
Juergen Marester, a 24-year-old French network consultant, needed seed capital to start his own computer-security company. So he turned to his off-hours hobby — black-hat hacking — and did what a growing number of hackers are doing: selling “0days” (pronounced “oh-days” or “zero days,” it [...]
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Featured Hits #2
DDOS - Tricks of the Trade
It is a bizarre technology environment we live in when this is a crime:
A 21-year-old Northern California man agreed to a two-year prison deal Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of unleashing distributed-denial-of-service attacks against two web sites.
Gregory King, known as Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707, admitted in U.S. District Court in Sacramento that [...]
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All your spyware are belong to us
It looks like BT thinks it is okay to install spyware on their customers computers. Nice.
BT has admitted that it secretly used customer data to test Phorm’s advertising targeting technology last summer, and that it covered it up when customers and The Register raised questions over the suspicious redirects.
The national telecoms provider now faces legal [...]
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Featured Hits #4
You down with OPD (other people’s data)?
“Files containing confidential data on about 5,000 employees at MTV Networks were illegally accessed by someone outside the company, the network told employees on Friday in a memo obtained by Reuters. When asked for comment on the contents of the memo, MTV said in a statement that the security breach occurred after an Internet connection [...]
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Hacking’s new business model
Future trend. His only mistake, was being too greedy so as to attract attention.
The NY Times has an interesting story today that’s indicative of an emerging hacking-for-profit trend that just might allow the perpetrator to keep his ill-gotten gains. In this case, the crime doesn’t involve hacking databases to steal credit and debit card numbers, [...]
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Welcome to the Security Hitman blog. This blog was designed to be a somewhat critical, modestly satirical, and mostly cynical look at the state of security issues in modern society. It is written by actual security practitioners to provide an honest counterpoint to media coverage on issues of cybersecurity, privacy, critical infrastructure protection and other [...]
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