Facebook privacy concerns: Timeline profile and user tracking
Posted by david b. on April 11, 2012
This entry by Zen Archer gives an up-close glimpse of some of the current concerns associated with Facebook privacy. A special focus here is on the Timeline profile’s privacy-infringing peculiarities and user tracking implementation.
Facebook is different now. A lot of people say it is a pivot, going from...
Terrorist Groups in the Online World: Mikko Hypponen at RSA Conference 2012
Posted by david b. on April 10, 2012
Mikko Hypponen talks on links between online crime, Windows trojans and funding the insurgents, explains the roots of some terrorist online publications and extremist malware.
So my latest research has been into the Internet use as done by extremist and terrorist organizations. And when we start to think...
Online Espionage 2: email backdoors and RSA hack
Posted by david b. on April 7, 2012
Read previous: Online Espionage: Mikko Hypponen at SecTor IT security conference
Moving on with his “Online Espionage” talk, Mikko Hypponen is providing a number of specific examples of attacks through email attachments containing backdoors for implementing subsequent contamination of the targeted...
Online Espionage: Mikko Hypponen at SecTor IT security conference
Posted by david b. on April 5, 2012
What is the present-day governmental and nation states espionage like and how should security companies treat it? How do emails with contagious attachments transform into critical privacy problems? How do you tell that you’re being spied on? The well-known malware adventurer and cybersecurity analyst...
The machinery of cybercrime 3: online card and ID markets
Posted by david b. on April 4, 2012
Read previous: The machinery of cybercrime 2: terror funding via the Internet
Jeff Bardin entirely dedicates the final part of “The Machinery of Cybercrime” talk to the card and ID markets as a substantial component of the large-scale worldwide criminal effort. Some of the specifics touched upon are...
The machinery of cybercrime 2: terror funding via the Internet
Posted by david b. on April 3, 2012
Read previous: The machinery of cybercrime: malware infrastructure and ties to terrorism
Continuation of Jeff Bardin’s talk called “The Machinery of Cybercrime” where he gives a special emphasis to terror funding sources, including the peculiarities of money movements via the Internet and stolen...
The machinery of cybercrime: malware infrastructure and ties to terrorism
Posted by david b. on April 2, 2012
The Chief Intelligence Strategist for ‘Treadstone 71’ Jeff Bardin presents his overview of cybercrime from several different angles. Mr. Bardin describes cyber fraud as viewed from within this industry, outlining such aspects as credit card fraud, botnet operations, spam distribution, phishing, money...
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware review
Posted by david b. on April 1, 2012
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“How safe is your browser?” – 3: unique browser fingerprints and trackability prevention
Posted by david b. on March 30, 2012
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Peter Eckersley moves on with his instructive talk on browser uniqueness. The final part of his speech explicates the issue of browser fingerprints that are constant over time, lists the browsers best coping with this...
“How safe is your browser?” – 2: Trackable browser fingerprints
Posted by david b. on March 29, 2012
Read previous: “How safe is your browser?” – Peter Eckersley on personally identifiable information basics
The second part of Peter Eckersley’s Defcon talk called “How unique is your browser?” is dedicated to describing the ‘Panopticlick’ experiment set up by the Electronic...
“How safe is your browser?” – Peter Eckersley on personally identifiable information basics
Posted by david b. on March 28, 2012
Technology Projects Director for EFF Peter Eckersley speaks at Defcon 18 on methods for identifying a person based on different sets of information, including data like one’s ZIP code, birthdate, age and gender, gradually shifting the focus onto some computer-based criteria such as cookies, IP address,...
Defending the Net: Mikko Hypponen on current privacy issues
Posted by david b. on March 27, 2012
Computer security analyst Mikko H. Hypponen presents his talk at TEDxBrussels event dedicated to the present-day privacy concerns, providing specific examples of such breaches and emphasizing the consequences. Mr. Hypponen also speaks on the three groups of online attackers and outlines the differences in...
“Who unleashed Stuxnet?” – Mikko Hypponen on the origin of the Stuxnet virus
Posted by david b. on March 26, 2012
The well-known malware researcher Mikko Hypponen (CRO at F-Secure) speaks on the probable origin and objectives of the notorious Stuxnet virus, outlines mobile malware issues and sheds some light on the mysteries around Conficker worm.
When Stuxnet was originally found in summer of 2010, we didn’t really...
The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 2009-2011
Posted by david b. on March 26, 2012
Read previous: The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 2003-2008
This is the final part of Mikko Hypponen’s Defcon 19 speech where he dwells on the latest cyber infections that appeared after 2009 and stay active up till now. It took virus writers years to create some of those, so they were...
The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 2003-2008
Posted by david b. on March 25, 2012
Read previous: The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 2001-2004
Continuing his talk at Defcon 19, F-Secure’s CRO Mikko Hypponen analyzes the shift that took place in the computer virus world around 2003. In this part, he is focusing on moneymaking techniques implemented through keyloggers, spam...
The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 2001-2004
Posted by david b. on March 23, 2012
Read previous: The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 1996-2001
What were the main cyber challenges in 2001-2004? These and some other issues are thoroughly addressed in part 4 of Mikko Hypponen’s Defcon 19 speech called “The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses”.
2001...
The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 1996-2001
Posted by david b. on March 21, 2012
Read previous: The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 1991-1996
In the third part of his talk, Mikko Hypponen proceeds with the chronological analysis of digital threats, emphasizing the dominating tendencies on the arena of computer viruses during the period 1996-2001: the influx of email worms...
The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 1991-1996
Posted by david b. on March 20, 2012
Read previous: The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 1986-1991
Second part of Mikko Hypponen’s speech “The History and Evolution of Computer Viruses” which encompasses the time frame 1991-1996 and reviews funny DOS viruses, some of the first Windows infections and quite a bit...
The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses: 1986-1991
Posted by david b. on March 19, 2012
CRO at F-Secure Mikko Hypponen provides a captivating insight into the onset and advancement of computer infections in his talk at Defcon 19 called “The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses”. This part of the speech is dedicated to a detailed description of the first viruses that came on...
Spam in social networks: Mikko Hypponen and Sean Sullivan on new spam issues
Posted by david b. on March 18, 2012
We are pleased to present a relevant discussion of the present-day social networking spam issues from a professional perspective. The experts participating in the talk are the famous ‘malware adventurer’ and F-Secure‘s CRO Mikko Hypponen, and Sean Sullivan – Security Advisor at...
How to hack Facebook account 4: Geolocation via cross-site scripting
Posted by david b. on March 16, 2012
Read: How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking
Read: How to hack Facebook account 2: using LCG for Facebook profile hacking
Read: How to hack Facebook account 3: applying Cross-Protocol Scripting to attack victim’s network
In the final part of Samy’s talk...
How to hack Facebook account 3: applying Cross-Protocol Scripting to attack victim’s network
Posted by david b. on March 14, 2012
Read: How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking
Read: How to hack Facebook account 2: using LCG for Facebook profile hacking
Having hacked the targeted Facebook account, which is outlined in the previous part of the speech, Samy Kamkar manages to get into the prey’s PC...
Evidence Eliminator 6 review
Posted by david b. on March 14, 2012
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How to hack Facebook account 2: using LCG for Facebook profile hacking
Posted by david b. on March 13, 2012
Read: How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking
Samy Kamkar continues his talk “How I Met Your Girlfriend” on hacking Facebook account, shedding some light on the use of LCG for reducing the amount of entropy
So let’s take a little closer look. If...
How to hack Facebook account: Facebook profile hacking by PHP session hijacking
Posted by david b. on March 12, 2012
Security researcher and former hacker Samy Kamkar delivers a speech at Defcon called “How I Met Your Girlfriend” where he introduces a PHP-based method of compromising a Facebook account for strictly personal purposes. Below is the adapted text version of his talk.
So this is a discovery and...
You will be billed $90,000 for this call 4: mobile malware distribution patterns and protection tips from F-Secure
Posted by david b. on March 11, 2012
Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call: Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) on Dialers, telephone fraud, mobile malware
Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call 2: F-Secure detects trojan malware in mobile game
Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call 3: F-Secure discloses mobile app virus...
F-Secure Mobile Security review
Posted by david b. on March 10, 2012
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The inception of due mobile security is all about the measures taken for assuring it. Idle approach of doing...
You will be billed $90,000 for this call 3: F-Secure discloses mobile app virus attacks
Posted by david b. on March 10, 2012
Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call: Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) on Dialers, telephone fraud, mobile malware
Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call 2: F-Secure detects trojan malware in mobile game
These fraud phone numbers are built so that they actually fund money back to the person...
You will be billed $90,000 for this call 2: F-Secure detects trojan malware in mobile game
Posted by david b. on March 8, 2012
Read: You will be billed $90,000 for this call: Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) on Dialers, telephone fraud, mobile malware
Alright, so let’s think from the bad part point of view. This doesn’t work if they wanna have premium rate numbers, wanna extract money automatically with malware. They have to do it...
You will be billed $90,000 for this call: Mikko Hypponen (F-Secure) on Dialers, telephone fraud, mobile malware
Posted by david b. on March 7, 2012
F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen speaks on telephone fraud schemes leading to money theft.
Hi everybody, my name is Mikko Hypponen, and we’ll be spending the next 30 minutes in this turbo talk, talking about ‘You will be billed 90,000 dollars for this call’
So, let me just...
