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ipconfig /flushdns
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dscacheutil -fluchcache
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Who runs botnets?
What bots do and how they work
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Crypto-Gram” (15 August 2005):
At DefCon earlier this month, a group was able to set up an unamplified 802.11 network at a distance of 124.9 miles.
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/networking/news/…
http://pasadena.net/shootout05/
Even more important, the world record for communicating with a passive RFID device was set at 69 feet. Remember that the next time someone tells you that it’s [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Hacking Computers Over USB” (Crypto-Gram: 15 June 2005):
From CSO Magazine:
“Plug an iPod or USB stick into a PC running Windows and the device can literally take over the machine and search for confidential documents, copy them back to the iPod or USB’s internal storage, and hide them as “deleted” files. Alternatively, the [...]
Posted on December 10th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Sterling’s “Viridian Note 00459: Emerging Technology 2006” (The Viridian Design Movement: March 2006):
Here we’ve got the canonical Tim O’Reilly definition of Web 2.0:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
After successful exploitation, a bot uses Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or CSend (an IRC extension to send files to other users, comparable to DCC) to transfer itself to the compromised host. The [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
… some of the more widespread and well-known bots.
Agobot/Phatbot/Forbot/XtremBot
… best known bot. … more than 500 known different versions of Agobot … written in C++ with cross-platform capabilities and the source code is put under the GPL. … structured in a [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
“A botnet is comparable to compulsory military service for windows boxes” - Stromberg
… Based on the data we captured, the possibilities to use botnets can be categorized as listed below. …
Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Most commonly implemented and also very often used are [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
An event that is not that unusual is that somebody steals a botnet from someone else. … bots are often “secured” by some sensitive information, e.g. channel name or server password. If one is able to obtain all this information, he [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance’s “Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets” (13 March 2005):
A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. … With the help of honeynets we can observe the people who run botnets … Due to the wealth of data logged, it is possible [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From AAP’s “Computers ‘glued’ to protect data” (News.com.au: 4 July 2006):
A rise in the level of corporate data theft has spurred some companies to take measures to stop rogue employees sneaking corporate data out of the workplace on memory sticks, iPods and mobile phones, The Australian Financial Review reported.
Rising data theft has prompted a number [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ann Harrison’s Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes (Wired News: 5 August 2004):
Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab, to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or government eyes.
The system is based on a concept called onion routing. It [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Dennis Fisher’s Spammers’ New Tactic Upends DNS (eWeek: 10 January 2005):
One troublesome technique finding favor with spammers involves sending mass mailings in the middle of the night from a domain that has not yet been registered. After the mailings go out, the spammer registers the domain early the next morning.
By doing this, spammers hope [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Dan Ilett’s Evil twin could pose Wi-Fi threat (CNET News.com: 21 January 2005):
Researchers at Cranfield University are warning that “evil twin” hot spots, networks set up by hackers to resemble legitimate Wi-Fi hot spots, present the latest security threat to Web users.
Attackers interfere with a connection to the legitimate network by sending a stronger [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes (Slashdot: 5 April 2005):
At a recent ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) meeting in Los Angeles, a team of FBI agents demonstrated current WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes.
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Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From John Diamond and Leslie Cauley’s “Pre-9/11 records help flag suspicious calling” (USA TODAY: 22 May 2006):
Armed with details of billions of telephone calls, the National Security Agency used phone records linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to create a template of how phone activity among terrorists looks, say current and former intelligence officials [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Mark Granovetter’s “The Strength Of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited” [Sociological Theory, Volume 1 (1983), 201-233.]:
The argument asserts that our acquaintances (weak ties) are less likely to be socially involved with one another than are our close friends (strong ties).Thus the set of people made up of any individual and his or her [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From David P. Reed’s “That Sneaky Exponential - Beyond Metcalfe’s Law to the Power of Community Building“:
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet, is known for pointing out that the total value of a communications network grows with the square of the number of devices or people it connects. This scaling law, along with Moore’s Law, [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Phone pirates in seek and steal mission“:
MOBILE phone technology is being used by thieves to seek out and steal laptops locked in cars in Cambridgeshire.
Up-to-date mobiles often have Bluetooth technology, which allows other compatible devices, including laptops, to link up and exchange information, and log on to the internet.
But thieves in Cambridge have cottoned [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “New search engine to help thwart terrorists“:
With news that the London bombers were British citizens, radicalised on the streets of England and with squeaky-clean police records, comes the realisation that new mechanisms for hunting terrorists before they strike must be developed.
Researchers at the University of Buffalo, US, believe they have discovered a technique that [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Justin Hibbard’s “Lack of distributed object development delays extranets” in Computerworld (17 March 1997):
An extranet extends an intranet to trading partners, suppliers and customers via a secure Internet link.
From Robert Hertzberg’s The Raw Power of an Idea: in WebWeek (31 March 1997):
The extranet … revolves around the notion of business partners opening up their [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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