Showing posts with label threat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label threat. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 December 2012

Which are more dangerous? Adult or Religious websites


A woman


In 2011, Symantec found that despite the public "image",  sexually explicit websites that host "adult films" were less likely to pose a security threat from malware compared to religious and ideological websites.    


Friday, 28 December 2012

MS08-067 As used by Conficker and Stuxnet


How do Worms travel?
Strictly speaking, a computer virus doesn't spread across a network whereas a computer worm can travel from machine to machine. But how do worms move between machines?

A vulnerability with the catchy name of MS08-067 was used by Stuxnet and Conficker to worm themselves across Local Area Networks but how did it work?  I spent a reasonable amount of time reverse engineering the vulnerability to discover how it was exploited.