Posts Tagged ‘mischief’

It’s not the end of the world: DarkComet misses by a mile

Mar

2012

This blog post is the fourth installment in our ongoing series of articles exploring the crypto systems commonly found in various DDoS malware families. Previous subjects have included Armageddon, Khan (now believed to be a very close “cousin” of Dirt Jumper version 5), and PonyDOS. Today we’ll be diving deep into the details of the […]

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TinKode arrested for suspected hack of NASA and Pentagon servers

Feb

2012

Police in Romania believe that they may have apprehended the notorious hacker TinKode, who in the past has hacked into government and military websites, exposing their poor security. The 20-year-old man, named as Razvan Manole Cernaianu, allegedly attacked Pentagon and NASA computer systems, revealed security holes, and published information about SQL injection vulnerabilities he had […]

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Is Juicejacking the new Firesheep? (Not really, but learn how to avoid it anyway.)

Aug

2011

I’m sure you’ve heard of hijacking. These days, it usually refers to the takeover by force of an aircraft in flight. (The word hijack is more interesting than you might think. No-one seems to know its origin. It first appears in the USA in the early 1920s, years before the first aeroplane hijack. Some say […]

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Posts Tagged ‘mischief’

It’s not the end of the world: DarkComet misses by a mile

TinKode arrested for suspected hack of NASA and Pentagon servers

Is Juicejacking the new Firesheep? (Not really, but learn how to avoid it anyway.)

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