Archive for the 'Security' Category

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illegal migrants in security jobs

« 16 December 2007 | 17:43 | Security, Stories | 2 Comments | 931 Views »

A couple of weeks ago I read an british article about the fact, that thousands of illegal migrants may have been working for private security companies in the last three years in the UK. Badly enough, that  up to 5,000 people without a proper background check and



Microsoft’s wireless keyboards cracked

« 2 December 2007 | 12:40 | Security | 2 Comments | 1,421 Views »

The swiss based company Dreamlab Technologies has shown that it is possible to capture and decrypt keystrokes, meaning that user names, passwords, bank details or confidential correspondence can be very easily eavesdropped.  According to their Press Release they found a way



WabiSabiLabi founder jailed

« 12 November 2007 | 19:08 | Security, Stories | No Comments | 921 Views »

The WabiSabiLabi founder was jailed, not for putting a bidding system for exploits online, but rather on spying charges.  Italian news media reported that Roberto Preatoni was arrested on Nov. 5 and charged with unauthorized access to computer systems and wiretapping.



More on Windows Local Kernel-mode Backdoor Techniques

« 10 November 2007 | 13:44 | Forensics, Live Response, Security | 1 Comment | 970 Views »

On uninformed.org you can find a whitepaper which describes several ways to get your code covertly executed in the Windows kernel. 



de-anonymizing Tor

« 7 October 2007 | 11:16 | Security | No Comments | 1,254 Views »

The guys from ha.ckers.org web application security lab recently published ways to bypass browser proxies and de-anonymizing tor. Well,



SQL Injection Cheat Sheet

« 7 October 2007 | 9:57 | Security | 1 Comment | 1,327 Views »

Yet another SQL injection sheet for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, ORACLE and PostgreSQL database from



Malware in eBay auction

« 22 August 2007 | 12:50 | Security | No Comments | 1,121 Views »

Security Monkey shows a clever real example, how easy it can be to attack horny eBay visitors. His 5 steps action plan is:



Secure Coding

« 1 August 2007 | 14:52 | Humor, Security | No Comments | 1,184 Views »


Fun with Airline Media Systems

« 1 June 2007 | 10:57 | Security, Stories | 1 Comment | 1,466 Views »

During my flight back from California to Berlin, the inflight entertainment system gone wild. It runs on Windows CE and I accidently managed to reboot the media client. This is its reboot information.



WordPress 2.1.1 with backdoor

« 2 March 2007 | 23:50 | Security | 1 Comment | 3,389 Views »

WordPress security warning! “If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 from wordpress.org within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately”. Please check



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