Category Archives: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks

Intesa Bank POS Terminals Insecure

Payment with credit or debit cards, at least in Serbia, at some of Intesa bank owned POS terminals is NOT secure. They print full credit card number on paper slip. Continue reading

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Conficker – Check to See If You Are Infected

To simply check if you are infected, you can use Conficker Eye Chart developed by Conficker Working Group. Continue reading

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The Sky Has Fallen!?

Not many people seem to have noticed that Invisiblethings team has reported the 3rd attack against SMM (Attacking SMM Memory via Intel® CPU Cache Poisoning) which they have found in the last 10 months. Joanna Rutkowska, founder and CEO of … Continue reading

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What Adware Can Do?

Read this interview and you probably will be scared. It is interview with Matt Knox. He talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. Continue reading

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Will machine intelligence be used for attacks as well?

I have worked for some time on using of artificial intelligence (AI) for protecting computer / information systems and networks. My work is primarily in area of intrusion prevention and detection systems (IDS and IPS). There is approach which considers machine intelligence usage for attack on systems’ security. Continue reading

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MD5 Collisions

It seems that bad days came for MD5 and those who based hashes on it. It is possible to create two executable programs with different functionalities with identical MD5 hash. Therefore, it is possible to create malicious executable which has … Continue reading

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Cell Phone Spying and How to Protect Yourself

Do you owe cell phone? Yes, of course. Then read this: Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored? It says: It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to … Continue reading

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Poll Results: Hacking Motives

Poll “Primary motives for hacking are” which was open on this blog since December 21, 2007 to March 31, 2008 is closed now. Based on answers of visitors, who took opportunity to vote in the poll, main reason why hackers … Continue reading

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Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

If you’ve thought your data are secure on encrypted hard disk, read: Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys. Researchers with Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have found a flaw that renders disk encryption systems useless if … Continue reading

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StumbleUpon Privacy Risks

Be careful, be very careful when use social networking sites! Some social networking sites and some sites that pretend to be social networking, but are marketing profiling sites, may pose huge privacy risk. I will talk here about very popular … Continue reading

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