Archive for October, 2008

Web Spam Failures

October 23, 2008 by Jose Nazario

HTTP logs are a great place to sample all sorts of badness. Earlier I went looking for some suspicious lines in a web server log and found a pattern from all over the net: web spam injection failures. The tool the attacker was using failed to get the right URL and try and post the [...]

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Information Security in a Tough Economic Climate

October 21, 2008 by Jose Nazario

The news these days is increasingly dire. Everyone is feeling it, including the taxi driver I spoke to this morning. Yesterday morning one of the headlines that jumped out at me was that a major service provider is announcing layoffs tomorrow. I quickly Googled and came up with this: Results 1 – 10 of about [...]

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Internet Banking NOT Infalliable – ‘Je ne comprends pas’?

October 19, 2008 by Danny McPherson

I had a bit of a chuckle this evening when reading an article about Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France and former Minister of several things, including Finances.  I didn’t find it funny because Sarkozy’s banking credentials were apparently compromised, enabling thieves to “siphon off cash”, as I’m not particularly amused by that.  However, several of [...]

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