The shellcode described in this post was obtained from the Eleonore v1.2 exploit kit. High-level details about that kit are mentioned in my April 2012 blog post. This post is a technical view of the actual shellcode and is intended to be instructive to the inquisitive reader. Since this code is relatively old, the main […]
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the wrangle between Indian cybercrew The Lords of Dhamaraja and Symantec, in which the theft of some of Symantec’s source code was revealed. At the time, Infosec Island, which describes itself as an “online community, infosec portal and a social network all-in-one,” quoted a Symantec spokesman as saying: Symantec […]
Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s VP Public Policy, was struck dumb by BBC reporter Emily Maitlis when she quizzed him about the ethics of “Sponsored Stories” on Facebook in a television documentary shown this weekend in the UK. News reporter Maitlis raised the issue of Facebook’s ethics – if you click “Like” on a company or product […]
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