Malware humor

Author: Omid Farhang Published: April 12, 2010 Reading Time: 2 min

Every once in a while, you find some odd piece of text in a piece of malware. Debugging the TDL 3 rootkit yields some interesting results. Here are messages that dump in the debug window at various times: Fri Apr 9 09:02:37.495 2010 (GMT-4): You people voted for Hubert Humphrey, and you killed Jesus Fri Apr 9 09:03:01.900 2010 (GMT-4): Ah Lou, come on man, we really like this place Fri Apr 9 11:53:08.715 2010 (GMT-4): Dude, meet me in Montana XX00, Jesus (H. Christ) Fri Apr 9 12:18:27.522 2010 (GMT-4): I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn’t screw to save it’s species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those french beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke ...

Continue Reading Malware humor

Google… made in China?!?

Author: Omid Farhang Published: March 25, 2010 Reading Time: 1 min

Today at CanSecWest I stopped by the Google booth and picked up a yo-yo. As I was about to open the package, something struck me: ‘Google… Made in China’ Oooops…….

Continue Reading Google… made in China?!?

Blank Plastic

Author: Omid Farhang Published: March 19, 2010 Reading Time: 1 min

We regularly learn of cases where criminals have gained access to credit card numbers via keyloggers, skimmers or online hacks. Once they have the credit card numbers, they basically have three ways to turn them into cash: Sell them Make fraudulent purchases on them Create real-world cards out of them To create real-world cards, you need blank cards to start with. These are known in the underground as “blank plastic“. ...

Continue Reading Blank Plastic

Hacker Fail

Author: Omid Farhang Published: March 2, 2010 Reading Time: 1 min

Very funny: The story starts with an guy insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being hacked and original author of the comments, who is talking here, is known as Elch. 127.0.0.1 is always the IP-adress of the computer you’re currently using, any request there will return to your computer. ...

Continue Reading Hacker Fail

History of the Internet

Author: Omid Farhang Published: February 12, 2010 Reading Time: 1 min

Have you ever wondered how Internet initiated 50 years ago in 1957? Below is a nice video which depicts how the Internet changed with respect to time in modern age. Must check it out! Hope you liked watching this video!

Continue Reading History of the Internet