http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com Analyse. Evolve. Secure. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:16:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems, hackers will be hackers. The advent of single point remote control systems like SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) which are connected to the internet means that obscurity of their existence is only a matter of social engineering or port scanning. What happens to say a electricity grid that ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=71 Adelaide Hacker compromised over 3000 machines and infected them with a known computer virus that can phish data like credit cards, banking logon details etc. He also tried to launch the virus globally and to potentially infect 74000 machines. He is facing a jail sentence of 2 to 10 years ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=67 Yet another example of students gaining access to teacher level accounts by social engineering and brute force. http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=9988833 [tags]students,hacking,school database[/tags] http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=65 Research has shown that Black Hat hackers in many cases are far ahead of their White Hat counterparts. Many of the wares produced by Black Hats are now "dormant" and waiting on your system to be activated when signaled. They are mainly trojans that wait for you use your online ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=54 The List Cross-Site Printing (2007 issue) CUPS Detection CSRFing the uTorrent plugin Clickjacking / Videojacking Bypassing URL Authentication and Authorization with HTTP Verb Tampering I used to know what you watched, on YouTube (CSRF + Crossdomain.xml) Safari Carpet Bomb Flash clipboard Hijack Flash Internet Explorer security model bug Frame Injection Fun Free MacWorld Platinum Pass? Yes in 2008! Diminutive Worm, 161 byte ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=57 The break-in occurred at a property belonging to a Wyndham franchisee, but that computer was linked to other company systems. That intrusion enabled a hacker to use the company server to search for customer information located at other franchised and managed property sites. The hackers were able to ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=44 A prominent US Government travel website used by federal agencies has been hacked. The site which is operated by defence contractor Northrop Grumman Corp, was breached and changes made so that unsuspecting users would be redirected to a rogue URL where malicious software was thrust upon their systems. GovTrip is used ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=40 Interesting research in the field of Visual Computer Forensic Analysis has been presented at Black Hat 2009 by Greg Conti and Erik Dean from the United States Military Academy Their research uses a visualisation tool to "view" files in a system being forensically analysed. In this manner, a file that is ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=26 Spammers are targeting both loved-up and single Australians with Valentine's Day-themed malware that tricks users into downloading what look like legitimate Valentine’s Day e-cards but are cleverly disguised computer viruses. Phishing attempts have also been reported. Email attacks contain attachments like  “meandyou.exe” and “onlyyou.exe” which have the potential to spread ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=6 Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based security company, admitted today that a database containing customer information had been exposed for almost 11 days and that it only learned of the breach when Romanian hackers told the firm about it (the hackers in this instance were white hats). No data was ... http://blogs.heuristicdelta.com/?p=42