The recent attacks on the SourceForge infrastructure showed us, that malware developers, hackers and other criminals are taking new approaches at distirbuting their malware bytes. When I read the blog message from the SourceForge team about the recent attack, I was astonished how huge the impact seems to be. There were many services taken down…
NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) finally selected five candidates out of 64 submissions for their cryptography competition. The aim is, to find a new hash algorithm which will be resistant cryptanalysis methods and technologies used today. The finalists are allowed to make minor modifications to their algorithms until January 16th. After that date,…
Today I found a delivery notification paper card in my letter box. The DHL courier was here and couldn’t deliver the package. So het dropped a message: DHL kindly asks to visit www.dhl-delivernow.ch. Once on the page, you have to choose the language and right after that, enter your 7 digit code on your notification…
Stellen aus Bund und Kantonen haben eine gemeinsame Publikation “Geschichten aus dem Internet – die man selber nicht erleben möchte” veröffentlicht. Die Comics zeigen gefährliche Situationen im Web auf und wie sie erkannt und vermieden werden können. Ziel ist, die Sicherheit und das Vertrauen der Bevölkerung im Umgang mit den Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) zu…
The last two days I attended the #Days Conference at the Blu Radisson Hotel in Lucerne. There were a lot of very interesting topics covered by the speakers. Day One The ceremony, and herewith day one, was officially started with the opening ceremony of Paracelsius, the president of the Defcon Switzerland, an official Chapter of…
Microsoft yesterday announced the existence of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Microsoft is currently working on an update which addresses this issue. In the mean time, users are encouraged to active the Data Execution Prevention Feature (DEP) in Internet Explorer. This feature is activated…
Symantec recently published their findings about the internals of the Stuxnet worm. The document describes the architecture and the internals of the worm. According to Symantec, Stuxnet is by far the most complex threat discovered until today. The experts at Symantec spent more than three months doing in-depth analysis of the thread. The outcome is…
MELANI today published new information regarding the popular Paypal phishing attacks. Please read the detailed and official post here.