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The good and the bad NEWS about Yahoo! being compromised.
07.31.2006 - 7:47 AM
On Sunday there were several reports that the Yahoo! business web site was compromised and defaced (see: http://www.zone-h.org/index2.php?option=com_mirrorw...
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07.21.2006 - 9:00 AM
Over the last couple days we seen a few emails with links that are using the Collections Depart...
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MySpace tops the charts...more phishing.
07.13.2006 - 11:08 AM
According to Hitwise yesterday it was reported that MySpace has passed all sites and is ranked number one in the US for visitors to its domain ahead of former leader Yahoo!. Quit...
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Mining for malcode with Google.
07.07.2006 - 9:19 PM
There have been a few blogs from outside parties on the subject of Google's search engine indexing not only file types such as PDF and doc, but executable files as well. A Google query for "Signature: 00004550” will result in numerous links to executable files. The reason this search works is because when Google indexes the executable file, it parses the PE file format of the windows executable. One of the things that is extracted from the PE file is the signature "4550", the NT signature, present in all valid win32 PE files.
As an experiment, we searched Google with Google's own API to find malicious executables Google’s search engine had indexed. We queried not only for the NT signature, but also for unique identif...
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July 2006
| 07.31.2006 | The good and the bad NEWS about Yahoo! being compromised. » |
| 07.21.2006 | Traffic Phines? » |
| 07.13.2006 | MySpace tops the charts...more phishing. » |
| 07.07.2006 | Mining for malcode with Google. » |
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