Cookies are a useful tool, but they come with a lot of potential for abuse. Not only will advertisers attempt to track your activities, but poorly designed web applications create security holes that attackers can exploit to gain access to account data. We demonstrate what can happen when a website improperly uses cookies for customer tracking.
Category: Main Digg
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Hackers Selling Vista Zero-Day Exploit
Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system at USD 50000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit – which has not been independently verified – was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace.
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Blogging Headed for the Slow Lane, Suggests Report
The blogging phenomenon may have peaked, suggests a report by Gartner researchers, who note a slowdown in growth of the total number of blogs on the Internet. However, the elimination of many spam blogs, or “splogs,” from the mix may reflect greater accuracy in documenting blogs rather than a drop in enthusiasm.
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Windows Vista Activation Permanently Cracked + Proof
Someone by the nickname of Dr. Chang has managed to permanently activate Windows! Dr. Chang has included screenshots to proof it. Dr. Chang tried pushing the date to Year 2016 (ten years ahead) and restarting several times, then moved the date back to 2006, the only thing that expired is his Antivirus.
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“Logic Bomb” Backfires on Hacker Employee
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former UBS PaineWebber (UBSN.VX: Quote, Profile , Research) employee was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday for planting a computer “logic bomb” on company networks and betting its stock would go down.
The investment scheme backfired when UBS stock remained stable after the computer attack and Roger Duronio lost more than $23,000.
A federal judge in New Jersey sentenced Duronio, 64, to 97 months in prison and ordered him to make $3.1 million in restitution to his former employer, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.
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Check out this ATM Theft
In the first picture you see an individual who apparently is making a bank transaction at the ATM.
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Default Password List
My favorite default passwords are routers. That has saved my ass so many times. Cisco routers, Lynsis routers.
Updated today 🙂 Enjoy
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Scammers take Web-mail hostage
After a visit to a cybercafe a Hotmail user returned to an empty Web-mail account, except for a note demanding payment for the return of e-mail and address book, a security firm said Monday.
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Howto Say the IPV6 Number
If you didn’t know, IPv4, the current network layer protocol used on the Internet is due to be replace with a new networking protocol called IPv6. IPv4 is a 32-bit addressing scheme that allows 4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses. IPv6 is a 128-bit addressing scheme that allows much more.
This is the number of possible IPv6 numbers that are possible:
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456And here is how to say the number.
340- undecillion
282- decillion
366- nonillion
920- octillion
938- septillion
463- sextillion
463- quintillion
374- quadrillion
607- trillion
431- billion
768- million
211- thousand
456
HOW BIG IS THAT REALLY??!
2^128=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 = 3.4×10^38
– 50 octillion addresses for each of the 6.5 Billion people on earth
– Every atom in the human body could have IPv6 address
– Windshield wipers on your car may have and IPv6 address (every device can be “pingableâ€)Pros and Cons of IPv6:
CON
• Lack of migration plan
• Definition of “compliance� (dod)
• Long address (2001:0000:1080:8c88:8:800:200C:417A)
• Security issues
• No tools to check IPv6 packets, so this exploit has no way to be stopped yet
– Windows XP supports IPv6 but the SP2 firewall would not detect rogue data inside ICMPv6 packetsPRO
• ipv6 for everything
• Japan already on top of it
• Help countries like China and IndiaHere are some other interesting numbers:
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How Google Handles Hacked Sites
Matt Cutts a google employee and head of the web Spam team at Google. Explains how Google handles Hacked Sites using a real example site that got hacked recently.