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Why Directi should be kicked
It is known in “security folklore” that a domain registered at Directi usually spells bad news. However I know have some stats to show it. How these stats were generated: The malicious domains were taken from DNS-BH The benign domains were taken from Alexa The registrar for each domain was extracted Of course, this is…
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SDHC – Shared Dictionary Compression
I saw the following article on the GOS blog: Google Search Pages Load Faster if You Use Google Toolbar. It turns out that Google added an experimental feature in the Google web servers and the Google toolbar to reduce the network traffic by supplying a dictionary of frequently used page elements (BTW, I find the…
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Good security news
Being Friday the 13th one can really use some positive news: on rootkit.com we have an article about Implementing SMM PS/2 Keyboard sniffer. How is this good news you ask me? Towards the end of the paper we have the following text (emphasis added): The limitations of hacking through SMM are obvious. It is almost…
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ASPROX presentation video
Via Greg Martin’s blog: a presentation about ASPROX delivered at Toorcon by Dennis Brown from Verisign:
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I had that idea!
Today I stumbled upon the paper Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud. It talks about running lightweight processes on the hosts which ship files to be scanned to a network server which scans them and gives the clean/infected verdict. I had the exact same idea around the same time :-). Some benefits of…
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Cool epoch counter
As probably many of you geeks already know, today the epoch counter (AKA unix timestamp) will reach the value 1234567890, which is cool I guess because it is in the order the keys are on your keyboard. You can find a countdown here. You can use the following perl snippet to find out when the…
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Don’t overthink software security
While reading the trapkit blog, my attention was drawn to the following post: Commercial usage of ScoopyNG. ScoopyNG, in case you didn’t know about it before, is a proof of concept tool to detect VMWare. In the post the author of ScoopyNG details how the makers of a commercial product (Atempo Time Navigator) use the…
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And you thought the JRE was big
I was updating a VM with WinXP today and it downloaded the “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB951847)”, which weight in at a whopping 238MB! An update! WTF? As a comparison: the Java 6 JRE is around 15MB.
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A portable AntiVirus collection
Over at the GSD blog I found a nice collection of descriptions on how to create portable anti-viruses. VIPRE would fit nicely in the collection, however I wanted to do a quick description on how to do this with BitDefender (I’m doing this from memory, so some details might be wrong!): Get the free edition…
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New Ethical Hacker Challenge
Brady Bunch Boondoggle – at the first read I confused it with the Dukes of Hazard, but I’ve since seen the err of my ways 🙂