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Something interesting on Corrine’s blog
That’s how a privacy company treats the email address of customers and (ordinary) newsletter subscribers. // Oliver
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Violating GPL to make the big money #2 …
Unbelievable. Even though the company is aware of their violation of the GPL, they don’t give a shit about it as it seems. They have been aware of it for at least one month now, yet their newest release which … Continue reading
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Marketing for security companies now via Secunia!
<sarcasm> A great new opportunity for IT security companies which sell products to detect bugs in software automatically (static analysis) – report some vulnerabilities after running your program on a bunch of software applications and feature your own product in … Continue reading
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Redpill getting colorless?
Although I had posted this already at the malware research forum and received little feedback, I decided to prepare a brief research paper about this topic and post it here. The topic is that the Redpill approach by Joanna Rutkowska … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Programming, Reversing, Software
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So IE7 is coming. Who cares anyway?
IE7 is coming. But who cares? This company has given a sh*t on standards for the last 10 years, now all of us are supposed to fix our websites again just because they finally found out that there is a … Continue reading
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Interesting view on the Spamhouse case …
… many people are blaming the judge in the US for Spamhouse’s problems. However, here is a different view on the case. If you are not familiar. An US-based company has sued UK-based Spamhouse – well-known antispam fighters – because … Continue reading
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Spammers stupid like toast bread
Obviously spammers try to get the biggest effect without caring for success. This is why greylisting works so great, I think. I still get daily requests to the sendmail CGI script which is no more vulnerable and turns down all … Continue reading
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Interesting new forensic tool
Today the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced a new tool named LiveView on the forensics mailing list at security focus. This tools looks really promising in that it claims to provide a way to create … Continue reading
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Spammers not welcome (2nd part)
Today my logs showed how exactly the spammers exploited the old script. I do not log the mail body, but only sender, recipient and subject, but that’s enough to show the used pattern. In fact the subject variable was used, … Continue reading
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More about MACkerer2
Lately I wrote an article covering one use of MACkerer2. The described scenario is basically this: You have a subnet or otherwise limited number of IP addresses for one scope A virtually unlimited number of machines is supposed to share … Continue reading
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Spammers not welcome!
Inspecting my logs recently, I found that there were some strange requests to my Postfix mail server from user www-data. Now any sysadmin could tell you what www-data means but this does not really explain where exactly the requests came … Continue reading
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AOL changed Active Virus Shield EULA.
According to heise UK, AOL has changed the EULA for the Kaspersky AV rebrand and removed the questionable parts. This is just meant as an update to the last article about Active Virus Shield. // Oliver
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Kaspersky AV rebrand freely available – pitfalls included …
It seems there exists a freely – and legally freely – available version of Kaspersky Antivirus rebranded as AOL – Active Virus Shield. Here in response to the first comment (see below), a quote from their terms of services:
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Agnitum still panicked?! …
Recently I wrote an article about Agnitum, a security software vendor known for its firewall, because of their accusations towards Microsoft. Today I recognized there was a comment of someone from Agnitum at the Sunbelt Blog, so I decided to … Continue reading
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Good idea – warn users of “badware”
StopBadware.org and Google joined forces to warn users of websites that spread malware – or “badware” as they say. This does not include the full spectrum of malware, but one of the nastiest subsets. Good initiative! This will hopefully be … Continue reading
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Agnitum panicked because of Microsoft’s security measures
In the Sunbelt Blog I read today, that Agnitum, vendor known for its firewall mainly, is panicked because of Microsofts Kernel Patch Protection. Sorry, but that caused me to laugh. No idea how new the news are, but to those … Continue reading
Posted in IT Security, Programming, Reversing
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