It seems that a code breach bunch of people ran off with the Adobe Source Code. It is a disaster for the company not just for the IP theft but has sweeping security implications for all users of Adobe software —…
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The Adobe Source Code Breach
Tagged with: acrobat, adobe, code breach, code security, cold fusion, flash, hackers, malware, source control
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Paranoia deepens for security people as hardware trojans cloak
I remember being back in college writing little trojans for windows and linux. Hardware trojans troubled one of my lecturers. He had been paranoid, for a great number of years, about the complexity of computer chips and during one such…
Tagged with: amd, computer security, doping, hardware trojan, intel, logic gate, microcode, NSA, processor, rng, transistor, trojan
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Posted in Security
Ann skips bail. Cue forensics puzzle.
Found a website and a forensics contest yesterday quite by accident. I was waiting for somebody before going out for the night and I thought this might be a little fun while I waited. Now the contest had closed and…
Analysing the byte entropy of a FAT formatted disk
Over at the Honeynet Project they used to run security competitions which were quite a bit of fun. I remembered one in particular which I looked at but hadn’t completed. It dealt with the forensic investigation of a floppy disk. I was tinkering…
Adding a malicious system call to the Linux kernel – Rootkit
Introduction Today I am adding a malicious system call to the Linux kernel which will allow the caller to do something they cannot normally do in user mode. When attacking a Linux box our goal is usually to become root;…
Tagged with: computer security, kernel, linux, mssf, opensuse, rootkit, security, system call, virtual pc
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Posted in Security