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XT IDE controller

Posted in July 31st, 2010
by admin in News, dos, ide, isa, ms-dos, rss, xt, xtide   

[Geordy] wanted to use some IDE devices but he didn’t have an interface card for his XT system, which can’t handle 16-bit  IDE. He looked around for 8-bit ISA controllers but they were hard to find and quite expensive. Lucky for him there’s an open source project that makes a solution to this problem. The [...]

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DIY picture frame better than store bought

Posted in July 30th, 2010
by admin in capacitor, computer, dos, home hacks, lirc, ms-dos, picture frame, rss, single board   

[Daniel's] homemade digital picture frame looks great, it’s well-built, and it has a nice set of features. It’s not made from a broken laptop and he didn’t build it around a microcontroller. Instead, he saved a 19″ LCD monitor with a burnt out back light caused by the extremely common blown capacitor problem. Twenty dollars on eBay [...]

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China Reports Millions Of Conficker Infections

Posted in April 20th, 2010
by admin in China, Malware, botnet, botnets, china conficker, china conficker infections, china malware, cncert, conficker, conficker b, conficker botnet, conficker virus, conficker worm, ddos, denial-of-service, dos, rss, shadowserver, trojans, viruses   

Conficker has been giving us all headaches for quite some time now, the latest news it that China hosts up to 28% of the World Conficker infections at its peak.
7 million separate hosts infected with Conficker at the end of 2009, that’s more than…

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PenTBox – Penetration Testing Security Suite

Posted in March 30th, 2010
by admin in Hacking Tools, Password Cracking, denial of service testing tool, dos, honeypot, pentbox, rss, ruby, ruby security tool, secure password generator, security suite   

PenTBox is a Security Suite that packs security and stability testing oriented tools for networks and systems. Programmed in Ruby and oriented to GNU/Linux systems, but compatible with Windows, MacOS and every systems where Ruby works.

It is free, lic…

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Zeus-related Botnet Servers Taken Offline

Posted in March 11th, 2010
by admin in Malware, Troyak ISP, botnet sting, botnet takedown, botnets, ddos, dos, mariposa, mariposa botnet, privacy, rss, scansafe, trojans, troyak, viruses, zeus, zeus botnet, zeus trojan, zeuswatch   

We wrote about Zeus a while back, a nasty trojan which can evade detection by Anti-virus software and is ranked as the number 1 trojan infector by numbers.
About a week ok a massive sting operation took down large parts of the Mariposa botnet in Spain…

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Twitter & Facebook Taken Offline By DDoS Attacks

Posted in August 7th, 2009
by admin in General News, cyberterrorism, cyxymu, ddos, dos, facebook ddos, georgia, joe job, joejob, political ddos, rss, social media, social networking, twitter, twitter and facebook ddos, twitter ddos   

Both Facebook and Twitter were hit with pretty severe DDoS attacks rendering them useless and unavailable to the majority of users.
The thing is it seems like it wasn’t a traditional network based botnet style DDoS attack, but a ‘joejob&#82…

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Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested

Posted in July 2nd, 2009
by admin in General Hacking, Legal Issues, Malware, arrested, botnet, ddos, dos, fail, ghostexodus, hacker arrested, hospital hacker, jesse william mcgraw, owned, pwned, rss, script kiddy   

This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming)..
But then he exposed his IP addr…

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Slowloris – HTTP DoS Tool in PERL

Posted in June 23rd, 2009
by admin in Apache, Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Network Hacking, Web Hacking, apache dos, apache dos tool, dos, network-security, perl, rss, slowloris, slowloris apache dos, web-security   

This tool has been hitting the news, including some mentions in the SANS ISC Diary.
It’s not actually a new attack (it’s been around since 2005) but this is the first time a packaged tool has been released for the attack.

Slowloris holds c…

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