Private homepage of Alexander Geschonneck (Berlin, Germany).
Things you do NOT want your System Administrator to say, from Packetstormsecurity. Verry funny. Some of my favorites are: That’s SOOOOO bizarre. What do you mean that could take down the whole network? What do you mean you needed that directory? Ooops. Save your work, everyone. FAST! Uh-oh….. Shit!! What the hell!? Go get your Read More …
Earlier this year I caught a cleaner with its hands in the cookie jar. Dumpster diving photographic evidence is here, here and here. Read my full report
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According to TIMES a fraudster outwitted sophisticated banking security systems by using an ordinary MP3 music player to bug cash machines and steal customersâ credit card secrets.
Thierry Zoller and Kevin Finistere gave a presentation in the Hack.lu 2006 conference on Bluetooth Cracking. They also showed a demo of BTCrack, a Windows tool that can crack Bluetooth PIN and Linkkey in almost real-time. All you need is
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,
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.“
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:
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? đ
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 …