Oktober 2006 - geschonneck.com

Buying Phishing Domain Names

Posted onSonntag, 29. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 20073 Comments

Mikko from F-Secure made a quick research on the domain name market. They made some searches on Sedo.com and found out that they are reselling domains like chasebank-online.com, citi-bank.com and bankofameriuca.com. According to Mikko and Sedo are more obviously fraudulent domains available,

WordPress update

Posted onSamstag, 28. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007

I updated my WordPress installation. I hope everything works fine. 0==(D)

The real story behind BT buying Counterpane

Posted onFreitag, 27. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007

Bruce Schneiers announced in his blog that BT (aka British Telecom) has acquired Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Ok, so far so good. But in a blog comment Carlo Graziani told the „real“ storybehind this deal. Verry funny.:cool: Bruce himself voted this comment for „Best blog comment ever.“

Online Passwort Checker from Microsoft

Posted onDienstag, 17. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 20071 Comment

Microsoft just published an online passwort checking tool on its website. The password checker can help you to gauge the strength of your password. I think they test the strength based on this rules:

New Helix version released

Posted onDonnerstag, 12. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 20071 Comment

There is a new Helix (Incident Response & Computer Forensics Live CD based on Knoppix) version released. Version 1.8 has a now Andreas Schuster’s PTFinder included an will no longer change JFS information. You can donwload Helix here. All new features at a glance:

New eventlog format in Vista

Posted onDienstag, 10. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007

Andreas Schuster wrote in his blog about the new event log format in Vista. He also has a good

additional hands-on training course on computer forensics in Berlin

Posted onSonntag, 8. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007

There is an additional hands-on training course on computer forensics in Berlin available. More information here.

Default passwords in ATM

Posted onFreitag, 6. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007

I saw some interesting articles about the old problem with default passwords on IT systems combined with the new problem that the manufactur published it on the internet. In this case we are speaking about ATM’s. Got cash? 😉

FSP/FRU File Copy Client released

Posted onDienstag, 3. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007

Harlan Carvey just released the FSP/FRU File Copy Client on SourceForge. The FCli is a GUI client that the investigator can use to select files to be copied from the suspect system, over to the FSP server.

2006 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey available

Posted onDienstag, 3. Oktober 2006Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007

The AusCERT computer crime and security site survey provides the most up to date and authoritative analysis of computer network attack and computer misuse trends in Australia over the last 12 months. The survey aims to raise awareness of the complex nature of computer security issues, identify areas of concern and, where appropriate, to motivate Read More …