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Trade Fair… For Trojans

09

Dec

2011

Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and eavesdropping is used by online criminals. The same techniques are also used by governments. Some government do this to spy on their own people or to find dissidents. Other governments do this while investigating criminal suspects.Most of the technology used in such intrusions are not developed by the governments themselves. They […]

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The bigger issue with the rogue Google SSL cert

30

Aug

2011

Today we saw the discovery of another rogue SSL certificate – this time for *.google.com. The certificate itself was issued five weeks ago. This will allow an attacker to sniff the traffic to virtually all of Google’s services even with HTTPS enabled. Right now, there’s an unconfirmed report this attack is happening in Iran. Frankly, […]

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Anonymous hacks BART, creating even more innocent victims

15

Aug

2011

Anonymous continued their crusade against governments and organizations this weekend, attacking the myBART.org website belonging to San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system. They performed a SQL injection (SQLi) attack against the site and were able to extract more than 2,000 records containing names, usernames, passwords (plain text), emails, phone numbers, addresses and zip […]

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