Archive for the 'Security' Category

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Malware in eBay auction

« 22 August 2007 | 12:50 | Security | No Comments | 1,112 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 | 1,169 Views »


Fun with Airline Media Systems

« 1 June 2007 | 10:57 | Security, Stories | 1 Comment | 1,454 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 | 3,379 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



SQL Injection in WordPress 2.1.1

« 1 March 2007 | 15:47 | Security | 2 Comments | 2,957 Views »

Upgrading to wordpress 2.1.1 was urgent, but we still have SQL injections, path disclosures and cross site scripting problems in this version! My colleague Sebastian Krause has some examples:



Scammin the ATM machine

« 19 February 2007 | 17:47 | Security, Stories | No Comments | 2,245 Views »

I know, no news, but this british TV report shows how ATM skimming works and they have some real devices too.



should law enforcement hack?

« 17 February 2007 | 8:37 | Forensics, Security, Stories | No Comments | 1,907 Views »

In Germany we have an ongoing discussion about the question: should police or law enforment hack? Germany’s supreme court determined this month that police may not secretly hack into suspects’ computers.  F-Secure made a quick poll



making fun of “duck and cover” pictures

« 14 February 2007 | 8:07 | Humor, Security | No Comments | 2,452 Views »

The US government has a website with some “duck and cover” pictures. The fun thing is that these pictures are so ambiguous they could realy mean anything!



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