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Diginotar Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

30
Aug
2011

Diginotar is a Dutch Certificate Authority. They sell SSL certificates. Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name .google.com. What can you do with such a certificate? Well, you can impersonate Google — assuming you can first reroute Internet traffic for […]

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Android malware gain access to root

26
Aug
2011

A new malware affecting the latest version of Android operating system 2.3, Gingerbread, is now out in the wild and masquerading as an app featuring the “Beauty of the Day” photos. The package I downloaded uses the following permissions: android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE android.permission.READ_LOGS android.permission.DELETE_CACHE_FILES android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS android.permission.READ_OWNER_DATA android.permission.WRITE_OWNER_DATA android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT com.android.launcher.permission.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED android.permission.RESTART_PACKAGES […]

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Introducing Trojan.Badlib: A Malware Distribution Network

24
Aug
2011

Technical analysis: Poul Jensen, Illustrations: Ben Nahorney It is a given that many malicious software threats seen today will download additional software components to perform various activities. With the transition from malware for fun to profit-driven malware and the connected nature of the computer-using population, it is not unusual to see malware threats download other […]

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