Social Maneuvering
Stocks and Hacks
People are now getting a bit more adventurous in what kind of attacks they perform. This one goes for the root of all evil, money and stock market. An Asian fellow gained access to an Internet brokerage and proceeded to dump all existing holdings and bought for himself lightly traded stocks to inflate the price [...]
Facebook leaks birthdays
As I have maintained to people never put out too much information about yourself. In fact putting some false content to pad your profile on there is not unwise. Facebook has been known to keep a lot of information. I mean after all it is very hard to actually remove yourself from it. And all [...]
Sail the recruitment seas for some trawling & phishing…
Welcome to the murky waters of recruitment sites. I am sure you have had your fair share of dealing with agents. So much so you’d rather deal with Internet sites? Well be careful of what details you put on those job boards! There has been a trojan that has been harvesting information and passed it [...]
Hide’n’seek
A Japanese lady managed to live undetected for a whole year. Now an ideal physical attack is to somehow get someone inside a building undetected, keeping a low profile and staying over. A well protected building would likely stop this attack. Naturally you’ve got to know a lot about this building in question before even [...]
Public access… be careful
This highlights the need to be very weary off anything you can get free. Public terminals at Heathrow airport allowed attackers to install software (keyloggers, backdoors, trojans, etc). RedOracle were informed by an Italian hacker (prego) and passed it on to the terminals’ owners, Spectrum Interactive. They have provided full information advisory.
