Archive for April, 2008:
News Roundup 29/04/2008
- Google Street View catches kid crashing bike [Privacy]
- No, this woman will not take your virginity if you support Net Neutrality [NSFW]
- No Power Use in Standby: New Zero-Watt Monitor [Écolo]
- Métro de Laval
Un premier anniversaire et des technologies exclusives [Local]
- Voxel Takes Aim at CDNs, Amazon S3 Service [Tech]
- Microsoft Downplaying Recent DNS Vulnerability [Security]
- Western Digital VelociRaptor Hard Drive Review [Review]
- Kraken Infiltration Revives “Friendly Worm” Debate [Security]
- iPhone finally coming to Canada [Tech]
- Windows XP SP3 now available [Tech]
- Tourist or Terrorist? [Photographie]
- Bell’s internet traffic shaping ‘defies all logic,’ ISPs say [Tech]
- Student fined $628 for sitting in a park [Local][Police state]
- Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition gets priced [Tech][Mobile]
- Tech Insight: DIY Penetration Testing [Tech]
- No taking pictures at Amtrak’s Union Station (but please enter our station photo contest) [Photographie][Police State]
- Autopilot Helicopter project [Tech]
- Nokia Internet Tablets to get Ubuntu and Qt ports [Tech][Mobile]
- Spam Is 30 Years Old [Spam]
- Who Will Cache in on Cloud Storage? [Tech]
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Mega news Roundup 23/04/2008
- Repurposed IKEA Messenger Bag [DIY]
- Become an Energy Drink Connoisseur [Energy Drink]
- Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today [Tech]
- Century’s SATA adapter supports 3 CF cards: cheap SSDs for all [Tech]
- Facebook Finishes Chat Integration, Makes This Blogger’s Life Miserable [Tech]
- Want goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com? Too Late [Tech]
- Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap Security]
- HOW TO - Backyard composter [Écolo]
- How To: Dual Drum Pedals in Rock Band [How To]
- Conan and ET (And Vigo) [Photo]
- Dull jobs really do numb the mind [Science]
- Get Consistent Mental Energy with Smaller, Frequent Caffeine Breaks [Coffee]
- Video : “I’m Gonna Git You Spamma!” - Official Trailer [Video + Sexy Veronica Belmont = awsome]
- Non-Existent Domain Hijacking Not Just Annoying, But A Security Threat [Security]
- Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer [Tech]
- Guitar Hero IV to get drumkit, microphone? [Games]
- Barack Obama site XSSed, redirected to Hillary’s website [Security]
- Review: 3 Ways To Kill Spam Dead [Spam]
- Marshal Exposes Spam Outbreak From Srizbi Botnet [Spam]
- 6 Intelligence Myths Exposed [Science]
- Update - Video: Russian MiG Shoots Georgian Drone [Politique]
- Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely [Science]
News Roundup 21/04/2008
Je reprend mon 2 semaine de retard dans les news !!!!
- ‘Provider-in-the-Middle Attacks’ Put Major Websites, Users at Risk [Security]
- Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni [Tech]
- 5 IT skills that won’t boost your salary [Tech]
- Storm clouds looming for Internet, experts say [Tech]
- Skype offers unlimited long-distance plan [Tech]
- Russia ’shot down Georgia drone’ [News]
- Mocking Muqtada al-Sadr [Funny]
- Western Digital VelociRaptor Is Launched but what about the Numbers… [Tech]
- How-To - Super softbox [DIY]
Update a venir plus tard …. (J’ai trop de lien) .
Demonoid Back Online
Welcome back!Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.
Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.
The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems.
Welcome back, and enjoy your stay!
- Umlauf
Demonoid Site admin
Super !!!!
Source : http://www.demonoid.com/
New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm…
400,000-strong ‘Kraken’ botnet has infiltrated 50 Fortune 500 companies — and now usurps Storm as world’s biggest botnet
APRIL 7, 2008 | 8:00AMBy Kelly Jackson Higgins
Senior Editor, Dark Reading
SAN FRANCISCO -– RSA 2007 Conference –- A new botnet twice the size of Storm has ballooned to an army of over 400,000 bots, including machines in the Fortune 500, according to botnet researchers at Damballa. (See The World’s Biggest Botnets and MayDay! Sneakier, More Powerful Botnet on the Loose.)
The so-called Kraken botnet has been spotted in at least 50 Fortune 500 companies and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques, including regularly updating its binary code and structuring the code in such a way that hinders any static analysis, says Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa.
“It’s easy to trace but slow to get antivirus coverage. It seems to imply [the creators] have a good understanding of how AV tools operate and how to evade them,” Royal says.
Kraken’s successful infiltration of major enterprises is a wakeup call that bots aren’t just a consumer problem. Damballa and other botnet experts over the past few months have seen an unsettling rise in bot infections in enterprises. (See Bots Rise in the Enterprise.)
Royal says like Storm, Kraken so far is mostly being used for spamming the usual scams — high interest loans, gambling, male enhancement products, pharmacy advertisements, and counterfeit watches, for instance. “But given that it updates its binary, there’s no reason it couldn’t update itself to a binary that does other things,” Royal says. “I’m wondering where this thing is going to go.”
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