Shocking but true…today a researcher discovered that Twitter has been used for command and control of a botnet which may have been used by Brazilian hackers to steal online banking login information. Kudos to the researcher, Jose Nazario, who found this. It was an interesting read to say the least. The bot would basically look […]
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Kevin and I want to thank everyone that came out to our talk at DEFCON 17 this past weekend. We had a great time giving the talk and thanks for the feedback! Even the two Facebook developers that came to our Q&A enjoyed it! Having said that, Kevin and I will never, ever get a
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One of the trending topics today on Twitter was “Twitviewer” becuase of a site called Twitviewer[d0t]net which asks visitors to enter in your Twitter user id and password to find out who is “stalking” you. When you do, you get a sample of people on Twitter that are not even following you as stated in
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Yes, you are reading the title of this post correctly! Massive Zombie attacks at DefCon this year…bring your shotgun (we are kidding of course, please do not bring firearms to DefCon…you will make the goons very unhappy)! Seriously though, Kevin Johnson and I will be presenting “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains”
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July 1st was “Twittersec” day as coined by @hevnsnt over at I-Hacked.com to designate July 1st as change your Twitter password day. Why? Mostly because July is the “month of Twitter bugs” created by a security researcher in which he will announce a bug in a “3rd party Twitter application” everyday for the month of
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If you have been using social media or are curious of the security of this emerging technology you may be interesting reading my recently published article in issue 21 of (IN)SECURE Magazine. In my article I discuss why companies are starting to use social media, the benefits/risks and what information may be posted about your
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If you are interested in using Twitter for information gathering/mining about potential targets for a penetration test or for “other” research…I highly recommend the very comprehensive article that Lenny Zeltser from SANS put together. Twitter is really becoming a great tool for not just marketing yourself or your business but also to find out detailed
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I won’t beat a dead horse…we all know that Twitter had a few *security issues* this week. The good news is that usually once something like this happens to a company (especially one that gets so much media attention) things start to change and security gets taken a bit more seriously. Lets remember that Twitter
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Welcome to 2009! As many have said…it was just a matter of time before Twitter had a somewhat significant attack…well, here it is! I just had a post up last week about how many of us that use social media just blatantly trust every site that asks us for Twitter credentials. Well if you don’t
First Twitter Phishing Attack of 2009 Read More »
There was a good post over at ThreatChaos the other day about a new Firefox extension which will automatically show you the real URL’s of shortened URL’s. What is URL shortening? For example…this long URL: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=washington+dc&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=38.905996,-77.023773&spn=0.25915,0.439453&z=11&g=washington+dc&iwloc=addr becomes… http://tinyurl.com/9lum95 By using a service like Tinyurl or one of the many other sites available you can easily
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