06 Aug 2013

Prodigy Email Vulnerability Puts Millions of Accounts at Risk

Prodigy Email Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Accounts and Puts Millions More At Risk In Mexico… Over the past few weeks I have been working with  El Economista on the discovery and disclosure of a massive security hole in Prodigy’s  (Telmex) mobile email and web based mail systems in Mexico. The hole

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01 Jul 2013

Carberp Botnet Lifecycle Infographic

Last week the source code for the “Carberp” botnet creation kit  was posted online and released to the masses creating a huge problem for security teams around the world. Carberp is sophisticated, modular and persistent malware utilizing advanced obfuscation techniques to evade detection, removal and the ability to disable anti-virus.

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27 Jun 2013

Analysis of Korean War Anniversary Cyber Attack and Malware

In both North Korea and South Korea, several websites were defaced and brought down via a DDoS attack on the anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The Red Alert (R3d4l3rt) team in South Korea have provided an in depth analysis of the vulnerabilities and methods used to access

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03 Jun 2013

Securing WordPress: Hardening Basics

WordPress has become one of the leading blog platforms, and many small to medium sized businesses even utilize it as their content management system. WordPress is available as a one-click install with most hosting providers making deployment simple. However this popularity and ease of use has come at a price,

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