The Internet is a big thing. Or, more accurately, a big collection of things. Figuring out exactly how many things, and what vulnerabilities those things contain has always been a challenge for researchers, but a new tool released by a group from the University of Michigan that is capable of scanning the entire IPv4 address […]
By now, you’ve probably read the news about “Red October” and you’re wondering how worried you should be? Red October is the latest AV industry case study of digital espionage. (Kaspersky Lab’s post here.) From a technical point of view Red October looks very much like any other targeted corporate espionage attack. The attackers use […]
Background: Spamnet Tracking A year or so ago, as we were talking about malnets one day, it occurred to us that there was probably a lot of similarity between the networks run by the Bad Guys to infect victims with malware, and the networks used by spammers to run their spam campaigns. In fact, we […]
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