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Rootkits - The new age of viruses 2008-03-01 04:10:00 Ah I remember some of the nastiest viruses back in the day attaching themselves in the MBR (Master Boot Record) rendering most anti-virus software useless (as it sits on top of the OS). Now it seems MBR infection is back in fashion for a new age of rootkits. Security mavens have uncovered a new class of attacks that attach malware to the bowels of a hard drive, making it extremely hard to ...

Harvard Site Hacked, Alleged Content Hits BitTorrent 2008-03-01 04:08:00 One of Harvard University’s Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network. A compressed 125 MB file described as the database for the Web site of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is available via the BitTorrent P-to-P (peer to peer) network. The file is listed on The Pirate Bay, a Web site that indexes torrents, ...

The Web is Dangerous, Google Warns 2008-03-01 04:03:00 The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google. The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one in 1,000 Web pages is malicious, according to Neils Provos, a ...

Firefox updates, blitzes trio of critical bugs 2008-03-01 04:00:00 Mozilla pushed out a new update of Firefox on Thursday that fixes ten security vulnerabilities, three of which are deemed critical. The trio of critical patches for Firefox 2.0.0.12 variously fix vulnerabilities including web browsing history and forward navigation stealing bugs; a privilege escalation flaw that creates a possible mechanism to run cross site scripting exploits and also poses a ...

How to Put SNES, NES, Sega, and Other Classic Games on Your Sony PSP 2008-02-29 11:45:00 Connect your PSP to your PC with a USB cable compatible with the PSP, specifically with a USB Type A on one end and a USB Mini-B on the other (found at Wal-Mart for about $5). Go to Settings --> USB Connection. Now you should have a removable disk drive added on to your My Computer window. Go online and find a Emulator for PSP (Google it). Each game system (SNES, NES, SEGA, etc.) has its own ...

duckhunt on wii for free 2008-02-29 11:41:00 There are a lot of people out there who have been waiting for duckhunt to come out on the Wii. It only makes sense considering the Wii-Mote can be used as a gun and Duck Hunt was a game that almost everyone who had the original NES had. Save your Wii point and get DuckHunt for free. Simply install the Opera browser on your Wii if you havent already and point the browser to http:// ...

Backdoors 2008-02-29 11:33:00 The backdoors for most intruders provide two or three main functions. Be able to get back into a machine even if the administrator tries to secure it, e.g., changing all the passwords. Be able to get back into the machine with the least amount of visibility. Most backdoors provide a way to avoid being logged and many times the machine can appear to have no one online even while an intruder is ...

Personal Security and Privacy on the Web 2008-02-29 11:27:00 “On the Internet, Nobody knows you’re a dog. True or False?” Privacy and security are siblings. The WWW has brought the Internet to every computer with a modem or a NIC. What is not as widely known is the loss of privacy and security it has caused. This lecture describes these issues, and present some measures that individuals can take. In the real world you have the power to choose when and to ...

Viruses, Worms and Trojans 2008-02-29 11:16:00 Unix. The world’s first computer virus.Title of Chapter 1 of The Unix Haters Handbook, ISBN: 1-56884-203-1 The above is indeed the title of a chapter! The book is in fact written by serious computer scientists. Nevertheless, we must disregard the suggestion that Unix is a virus as an attempt at being hilarious. Equally unhelpful are the news media that use the term virus in referring to any ...

Passwords 2008-02-27 08:39:00 Passwords on a Unix System On a Linux system (without the Shadow Suite installed), user information including passwords is stored in the /etc/passwd file. The password is stored in an encoded format. The algorithm used to encode the password field is known as a one way hash function. The computation is easy in the encoding direction, but very time consuming to calculate in the reverse ...

Wiimote Swing - Dance Text onto your Montor 2008-02-26 10:06:00 The Wiimote Swing by Erik Loyer is an interesting way to display text on your screen. Video after the jump. “Enter your text and hit the Home button on the remote. Then, hold the Wiimote sideways, with the D-pad on the left and facing upwards, and twist it back and forth like a steering wheel to advance through syllables. Roll the Wiimote towards you to make the text grow larger, and away ...

Trojan Mimicks Windows Activation Interface 2008-02-25 10:17:00 Recently a new Trojan popped up that mimics the Windows activation interface, phishing for credit card details and even the PIN number. The Trojan itself isn’t particularly advanced technically, it’s mostly just a social engineering attack Symantec is reporting on a Trojan horse that mimics the Windows activation interface. What they are calling Trojan.Kardphisher doesn’t do most of the ...

Real Player 11 full (+YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER) 2008-02-25 10:07:00 Download youtube videos Users can use the innovative, single-click process to quickly download and save videos for later enjoyment. Users can download multiple videos simultaneously with RealPlayer, allowing people to save time and easily multitask. Users can also start downloading in the middle of watching a video, and the entire video will be captured. More Information and Download Details: ...

Another MSN worm spreading rapidly 2008-02-24 05:57:00 Another MSN worm spreading with the same tactics as usual, “Wanna see my pictures before i send em to facebook?” and so on. The only really interesting thing about this worm is it sends the message in the language of the locale installed on the infected machine, this is pretty intelligent and is much more likely to work as most of the people on sometimes contact list are probably from the same ...

FireFox 2.0.0.11 and Opera Remote Memory Attack 2008-02-24 05:52:00 Opera and FireFox contains vulnerable code for handling BMP files with partial palette. The code allows to craft a BMP file that leaks information from the heap. This information can be sent to remote server using tag (HTML 5) and javascript. Also other browser (for example Apple Safari) contain vulnerable BMP handling code, but since there is no way of acquiring the image data (due to not all ...