NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2015 | February

SSCC 184 – What’s the lifespan of a GHOST? [PODCAST]

Posted on February 5, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Our weekly security podcast – the latest news in 15 minutes, entertaining *and* educational. Enjoy!

Internet Explorer has a Cross Site Scripting zero-day bug

Posted on February 4, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Another day, another zero-day. This time, it’s Internet Explorer that is attracting the sort of publicity a browser doesn’t want, with the public disclosure of an XSS bug.

D-Link routers vulnerable to DNS hijacking

Posted on February 4, 2015 by nocrackingzone

A newly discovered vulnerability in the ZynOS firmware used by popular routers may leave some models at risk of DNS hijacking

Revenge-porn website operator Kevin Bollaert guilty of identity theft and extortion

Posted on February 4, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Kevin Bollaert was behind ugotposted.com and its companion extortion site, which would take down frantic victims’ photos (for a tidy sum, of course).

New-style ransomware locks out your customers – demands money to let them log back in

Posted on February 4, 2015 by nocrackingzone

The crooks took a low-key, annoyingly simple, and hard-to-spot approach. Change usernames like JIMMY to FKOVWH3Z7LUV, but hide the changes…for a while, anyway.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft pay to get ads past Adblock Plus

Posted on February 4, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Ad-buying big boys Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the content marketing platform Taboola have quietly ponied up the money to keep their ads from being blocked on Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising.

“Exploit This”: Evaluating the exploit skills of malware groups

Posted on February 3, 2015 by nocrackingzone

SophosLabs researcher Gabor Szappanos compares APT actors and cybercrooks. A comparative review of malware writers! A fascinating study, well worth a read…