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Social and Political Activism in the Cyber Age
The most effective protest to date against BART, the Bay Area (California) Rapid Transit system where a police officer infamously shot a passenger dead more than a year ago, may have been conducted online when the hacking group Anonymous posted … Read more
Hossein Eslambolchi: The top 10 trends for the next 15 years: – and why they matter
Interesting article by Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, who highlights the intersection of massive communication industry transformation and its implications for the security industry. Is there any question that security requirements must move into an offensive mode for businesses to provide adequate … Read more
Outdated Assumptions
The term “targeted attack” gets thrown around an awful lot nowadays. In fact I’m guessing you’ll be hard pressed to find many public breach disclosures that make it to the news that aren’t labeled as having been “targeted”. Read more
Sinkhole Nastiness
In response to a complex and rapidly evolving threat landscape, a number of new commercial threat feed companies have appeared on the scene over the past few years. While there’s quite a variety to the threat data types being provided, many of th… Read more
It’s raining source!
For the last several years, source code for some of the more popular do-it-yourself (DIY) and crimeware kits such as Zeus, SpyEye, Poison Ivy, and TDL have been closely guarded and only mentioned in forums where individuals were wishing for the opportu… Read more
Who Broke the WHOIS?
As Internet services go, WHOIS held a lot of promise but has repeatedly failed to live up to its potential; raising the question “is it time to retire WHOIS?” The concept behind WHOIS was simple. For each and every registered domain name, p… Read more
The Crimeware Infection Lifecycle
The distribution and installation of malicious and unauthorized software has evolved consistently throughout the 21st Century. The evolutionary path from annoying viruses, to destructive malware and on to financially driven crimeware, is well documente… Read more
Understanding the Modern DDoS Threat
The breadth of cyber threats that an organization must engage with and combat seemingly change on a daily basis. Each new technology, vulnerability or exploit vector results in a new threat that must be protected against. Meanwhile some forms of attack… Read more
Ratings and the TubeBot
“With millions of YouTube users uploading their videos each day, it is almost impossible for your videos to get the exposure it deserves. Without the right promotional techniques and marketing, your videos on YouTube could and will eventually disappe… Read more
Stop! I Command Thee
Just about every botnet that Damballa tracks today has the ability to remotely shutdown the botnet agent installed on the victims computer; in fact many botnets also include the ability to remotely uninstall themselves from the victim computer as well…. Read more