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Kelihos/Hlux botnet returns with new techniques

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Jan

2012

It has been four months since Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab announced the disruption of Kelihos/Hlux botnet. The sinkholing method that was used has its advantages — it is possible to disable a botnet rather quickly without taking control over the infrastructure.However,as this particular case showed, it is not very effective if the botnet’s masters are […]

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Most Wi-Fi routers susceptible to hacking through security feature

30

Dec

2011

Stefan Viehbock, an independent security researcher, published a paper on Boxing Day titled “Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup” to his WordPress blog disclosing a weakness in the configuration of most consumer/SoHo Wi-Fi routers. As we all know the state of security for most home Wi-Fi networks was nearly non-existent only a few years ago. This […]

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iOS 5 introduces security challenges and flaws

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Oct

2011

A little over a week since Apple released iOS 5, I thought I would review some of the new functionality and security on the platform in general. I began by revisiting the encryption Apple promises and whether they have fixed the issue that I first wrote about in May 2010. According to the “iPad in […]

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