Having worked at IT consulting on a part time basis since 1986 and full-time for the past eight years I’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of small to mid-sized organizations varying in size from the one person home office to entities with revenues in the mid-eight figure range and just under 100 [...]
Wireshark for Network Management
An edited version of this article was originally printed in the May 2009 edition of Hakin9 Magazine under Tool Reviews. As an IT consultant I frequently need to monitor and analyze network traffic. Wireshark is easily the tool of choice. Introduction: The great white is one of the undisputed masters of the open seas and [...]
The Cybercrime Ecosystem by Eugene Kaspersky
Cybercrime Is Here to Stay Our society has evolved to the point where many if not most of us spend a significant portion of our lives online. In many ways, this online virtual world mirrors our real world. Criminals, who are an unfortunate but integral part of our social structure, quite naturally have also appeared [...]
Conflicker Worm Will Not Cause the World to End!
With the Conflicker worm having become the latest of the Internet scares being propagated by the main stream news media we thought it essential to cover this topic a bit. The Conflicker worm is programmed so that infected machines attempt to update themeselves periodically with the next known update being for April 1, 2009. That [...]
Stealth Keylogger Used to Invade Victim Bank Accounts
As reported by several European news sources in early February 2006 a gang of Russian and Ukrainian hackers have been arrested for the alleged theft of over €1m (1 million Euros – approximately 1.22 million USD) from French bank accounts. The electronic thefts occurred by infecting the victims’ computers with a key logging program embedded [...]