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H1 OS Desktop Vulnerability Report – Get It Now
You might know Jeff Jones' work on the different vulnerability reports comparing different products and vendors. Our goal is to understand and measure our progress and see where we stand with regards to the industry. Today, Jeff release his OS Desktop Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 03:05 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Estonia’s Cyber Security Strategy
Following the attacks on Estonia, they published a pretty interesting paper called Cyber Security Strategy by the Ministry of Defense in Estonia. One thing which I see again and again is that most of the people looking into such strategies conclude that Read More...
Posted 08 October 08 09:56 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Renting a Botnet on eBay
It is getting better over time: Now you can rent a Botnet on eBay to increase your hitrate on YouTube (By the way: Free shipping is included): http://cgi.ebay.com/Guaranteed-100-000-views-for-your-YouTube-video_W0QQitemZ220279609299QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220279609299&_trkparms=72%3A1163|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Read More...
Posted 11 September 08 06:13 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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You know about PDOS?
Well, I know DOS, I know DDOS, but I never knew PDOS until today: there seems to be a new way to attack systems using the firmware update mechanism and generating a Permanent Denial of Service (actually damaging the hardware)…. I was involved in a Ciritical Read More...
Posted 21 May 08 03:04 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Support for Law Enforcement and COFEE
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of chatter about a tool we provide in a Beta version to Law Enforcement called COFEE: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. Let me give you some information on COFEE and put it into the proper context. Read More...
Posted 14 May 08 04:00 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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More of a third of software is stolen
BSA just released today a new piracy study and there are some remarkable facts in there: The worldwide weighted average of piracy rate is 38% The median piracy rate in 2007 is 61% Think about the second point for a second: This means that in half of the Read More...
Posted 14 May 08 08:36 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Infosec: Security community must work together
Ed Gibson, our CSA in the UK had an interview during Infosec with VNunet. He made some interesting statements: We have a good set of laws in place and they have teeth. But the police have priorities and budgets set by the Home Office and Any one of you Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 02:22 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Intelligence Report v4 – Live and Ready to be Read
As you (hopefully) know, we publish a Security Intelligence Report every 6 month and today we just released version 4. Let me give you some key findings before you go and read it J Basically the intent of the report is, to provide a comprehensive overview Read More...
Posted 22 April 08 12:13 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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You thought Worms are gone? Think again!
I am one of the security guys saying that the likelihood for us seeing events like Blaster or Slammer again is very, very low (this shall not be a "call to action" for the criminals…). I think that the measures the whole industry took as well as the increased Read More...
Posted 05 January 08 09:52 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Consumer Trust in e-Business
If the light of the latest outreach we did around scam ( Lottery Scam – The voice of the victim ), Research firm Ipsos was retained to conduct research with consumers in Germany, Italy, Denmark, UK and The Netherlands. About 3'500 users were contacted Read More...
Posted 21 December 07 04:38 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Lottery Scam – The voice of the victim
We all know that there are scammers telling you that you won in the lottery. A lot of security people think that the victims are naïve and dumb. We just started to run a story on lottery scam and part of it was an interview with a victim. The victim – Read More...
Posted 20 December 07 07:47 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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I was visiting Nigeria – watch out!
You know that I rarely did trip reports in the past. I am personally convinced that you do not want to read, what I had for breakfast in Barcelona. But this trip was different. When I told the people around me that I will be travelling to Nigeria I got Read More...
Posted 23 November 07 08:14 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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