Creator Of New Site Claims To Out The Online Pirates Among Us

Pirates beware! The creator of a new Web based search engine says that linking you up with your illegal downloads is easier than you may think. Suren Ter Saakov, the creator of the Web site youhavedownloaded.com, said his new Web site can link legal and illegal downloading activity from a number ...

Microsoft Now Using IP Address to Map Malware Infections

Microsoft has a new way of determining the geolocation of systems infected with malware, and it had subtle but relevant effects on the 11th volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. It’s a novel concept, instead of relying on an administrator-specified setting that anyone with hands a...

TDSS Rootkit and DNSchanger: An Unholy Alliance

The TDSS rootkit has proven to be more pliable and adaptable than a campaigning politician, and attackers have used it in various forms for the last three or four years for all sorts of different attacks. It shows up in drive-by downloads, targeted attacks and just about everything in between, an...

bitcoin-getaddr NSE Script

Queries a Bitcoin server for a list of known Bitcoin nodes Script Arguments max-newtargets, newtargets See the documentation for the target library. Example Usage nmap -p 8333 --script bitcoin-getaddr Script Output PORT STATE SERVICE 8333/tcp open unknown | bitcoin-getaddr: | ip timestamp |...

P2P Version of Zeus Botnet Appears

A new version of the Zeus malware has appeared, and this does not seem to be a minor upgrade, but a major custom version of the Trojan, which now sports a P2P capability that does away with the use of the domain-generation algorithm used in earlier versions and instead uses a hardcoded list of IP...

Attackers Adjusting Tactics to Evade Reputation Systems

BARCELONA–As in life, reputations on the Internet take time to build up. Attackers interested in making a quick buck aren’t necessarily the most patient lot, so as the various repuation systems on the Web have gotten more sophisticated and accurate, the bad guys have had to adjust their tactics a...

Microsoft Takes Down Kelihos Botnet

Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are responsible for the operation of the Kelihos botnet. The company has also helped to take down the...

Report: Japan Fesses Up to First Cyber Attack on Defense Industry

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MHI, Japan’s primary defense contractor, recently suffered a data breach that may be the first major cyber-attack on Japan’s defense industry to be publicly disclosed, according to a report from Reuters. The attack, first discovered in early August, is believed to have...

HTTP DDoS Attacks Still Reign Supreme

Despite the media’s love-affair with Anonymous style cyber-anarchy and vigilante-hacktivism, the vast majority of DDoS attacks are carried out by criminals seeking financial gain, not activists, according to a new research report. The top four targets of DDoS attacks in the second quarter were...

CVE-2011-3187

The tos method in actionpack/lib/actiondispatch/middleware/remoteip.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.5 does not validate the X-Forwarded-For header in requests from IP addresses on a Class C network, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary text into log files or bypass intended address...

A Miner Botnet: Bitcoin Mining Goes Peer-to-Peer

Identifying a botnet is not an easy task sometimes, especially when one gets lost in different components like droppers, infectors and other bad stuff. Some two weeks ago, Jose Nazario from Arbor Networks pointed me to a new varmint that appears to be another peer-to-peer bot. When executed, the...

Fedora 14 : NetworkManager-0.8.4-2.git20110622.fc14 (2011-8612)

This update fixes the security issue for creating shared WiFi networks. It's been tracked by 709662 - CVE-2011-2176. Before this update, NetworkManager didn't respect PolicyKit policies for creating shared WiFi networks: actions org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.wifi.share.open and...

House Committee Passes Bill to Force ISPs to Retain User Data For 12 Months

A controversial bill that would force ISPs to retain records for up to 12 months that would allow them to identify users by IP address has cleared a key hurdle and passed the House Judiciary Committee by a wide margin, setting it up for passage by the full House. The bill was introduced with the...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

broadcast-ping NSE Script

Sends broadcast pings on a selected interface using raw ethernet packets and outputs the responding hosts' IP and MAC addresses or if requested adds them as targets. Root privileges on UNIX are required to run this script since it uses raw sockets. Most operating systems don't respond to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: bind-9.7.3-2.P1.fc13

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

Nmap NSE net: asn-query

Maps IP addresses to autonomous system AS numbers. The script works by sending DNS TXT queries to a DNS server which in turn queries a third-party service provided by Team Cymru team-cymru.org using an in-addr.arpa style zone set up especially for use by Nmap. The responses to these queries conta...

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million users personal info hacked in Japan !

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million user's personal info hacked in Japan ! Personal information on a total of 100 million people has possibly been hacked and leaked from online game and other Internet services provided by the Sony Group worldwide, sparking fears that it could develop into the...

CVE-2011-1499

acl.c in Tinyproxy before 1.8.3, when an Allow configuration setting specifies a CIDR block, permits TCP connections from all IP addresses, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hide the origin of web traffic by leveraging the open HTTP proxy server...