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Dissecting ‘Operation Ababil’ – an OSINT Analysis

28

Sep

2012

Provoked by a questionable online video posted on YouTube, Muslims from the around the world united in an apparent opt-in botnet crowdsourcing campaign aiming to launch a DDoS (denial of service attack) against YouTube for keeping the video online, and against several major U.S banks and financial institutions. Dubbed “Operation Ababil“, and operated by the […]

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Pinterest spam promotes Acai Berry diet

02

Apr

2012

Sophos – Unless Pinterest gets serious about preventing spammers from abusing its systems, the problem is just going to get bigger and bigger.Today, for instance, we’re seeing Pinterest posts promoting an “amazing weight loss product”.The posts claim that the product is sponsored by Pinterest themselves, and doesn’t seem to care whether it uses an image […]

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Interview with SCADA hacker pr0f about the state of infrastructure security

22

Nov

2011

Last week I wrote a story on the compromise of an industrial control system in Illinois that destroyed a pump at a water processing facility. The same day a hacker came forward and posted internal information on pastebin.com from another compromised utility in South Houston, Texas. Within hours of publication I was contacted by the […]

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