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Redux: Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords?

07

Jun

2012

Yesterday, LinkedIn confirmed reports that some member passwords have been compromised. Here’s some info from their blog: “It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

A DDoS Family Affair: Dirt Jumper bot family continues to evolve

05

Apr

2012

Previous blog entries and analysis by others in the security community have shined a light upon the Dirt Jumper DDoS bot. Dirt Jumper continues to evolve (version 5 appears to be the newest) and a variety of other associated bots packages have emerged over time to include Simple, September, Khan, Pandora, the Di BoTNet and […]

Category Security Written by Arbor Networks 0 Comments

On-Going Dynamic FakeAV Campaign

30

Mar

2012

Looking back on traffic from this week, I noticed a large spike in the number of companies accessing free TLD / Dynamic DNS related sites. Digging deeper it appears that a malware campaign tied to massive WordPress compromises was the culprit. This is a very widespread malware campaign that remains live / on-going and is […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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